Forgive me but as a customer my interest is not in what is good for the corporation to which I may end up paying good money for my entertainment.
If what is good for them is inconvenient for me then it's not good for me.
As a customer I want to have ease of access and a reader that reads .mobi, .azw AND .epub would be more interesting to me (Incidentally to Amazon too because on top of buying epubs I would end up buying Amazon's ebooks too with such a reader) and I don't plan to pay AND keep the corporation's interest at heart.
It reminds me of the issue of geographical restrictions on so many ebooks out there. I can't buy book X because it's only sold in region Y when I happen to live in region Z as if those companies agreeing to sell here but not there WERE ANY of my business or concerns. I would be, in such case, stupid to just nod and say to myself, ok I won't read this ebook because it is NOT in the company's interest to do so just because I live in the "wrong" region.
If they exclude me from A: a good price and B: access to a product that is available elsewhere but not to me, then it's my right to find "alternative ways" to get the product in question and too bad for the company, they were not smart enough to respect the customer and give worldwide access to a product which comes natural with the worldwide availability of the internet.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it's sound business sense. Say what you want about Amazon, but they don't generally do things that aren't good business. They sell the Kindle essentially at cost price because they rely on making money from content. Kindle owners generally buy books from Amazon, and owning their own DRM system rather than having to pay licence fees to Adobe allows them to generally undercut the prices of bookstores which use Adobe Content Server, for which there are not only extremely high licence fees for the store, but a fixed cost of 22c per sale. Amazon have none of these costs, and hence can sell books more cheaply.
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