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Originally Posted by mgmueller
I guess, there's a simple explanation:
Amazon wants to sell content.
That's even their motto: "We don't want to make money when selling the product, we want to generate profits when the product actually is used" (or something like that, quote from Jeff Bezos).
Meaning:
They want you to buy your books from Amazon.
I do so. I've got around 1000 eBooks from Amazon. On my Paperwhite with 2GB, I could fit about 700 of those. On the newer model with 4GB, there should be storage space for close to 2000 original eBooks from Amazon.
There won't be many consumers, having more than those 2000 eBooks. If some have more (a friend of mine has hoarded more than 30000 PDFs), it's normally not original purchases, but (illegal?) downloads from 3rd party vendors.
Amazon doesn't want you to sideload too many books from 3rd parties...
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I really, really doubt this.
Amazon puts no restrictions on what you can sideload. Take a look at B&N to see how to prevent too much sideloading from 3rd parties.
Anyone with >3500 average-sized books (the amount the Kindle storage can hold) is
just as likely to have gotten it from Amazon as any other vendor -- unless we are talking about pirated books. I suppose it is theoretically possible Amazon restricts the storage in a ridiculous belief that anyone going over the limit is obviously a pirate... but I doubt it.
More likely, Amazon is primarily concerned with marketing to the people who don't buy a ton of books. "There won't be many consumers, having more than those 2000 eBooks." Or more like, about a few hundred. And Amazon doesn't care where the minorities get their books from, they simply do not consider it worth their time to expand the storage for "won't be many consumers".