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Originally Posted by jswinden
I agree that we should complain. I suspect it will do absolutely no good though. Amazon makes all of its revenue from the K4PC, K4Mac, K4Android, and K4iOS apps by selling books to read on them. The apps are free. If we don't buy Amazon books for these apps, then they don't make money. Therefore they have no monetary interest in enabling these apps to have the same feature set for non-Amazon books as they do for Amazon books. From a business stand point it makes sense to provide far fewer features for non-Amazon books. From our stand point it sucks.
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Kindle for Android and iOS alongside the Kindle devices support these features so they are not absolutely unthinkable for PC and Mac. But you are correct that Amazon would not profit from that, unless we point out other platforms that support this. The Mac-iOS combo does that and in pointing that out to Amazon CS I just got a less generic reply than usual. Think how the start of iBooks pushed Amazon into improving Kindle for iOS to include the richest feature set on all platforms... If they can be made aware that they now have to factor in the Mac as well, things might change for Kindle for Mac (and subsequently the PC as well). That because they are well aware that they cannot just be a book vendor but must provide a satisfying overall reading experience. They wouldnt make much money from Instapaper digests and PD books anyway, while potentially losing customers once they get used to other platforms...
I think all is not lost
