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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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".
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For their own content, they constantly refer to the cloud.
In my case, I only can download about 700 of my 1000 Amazon books to my Paperwhite 2. But having opted for the 3G model, I could download any of the missing 300 books on the fly wherever I am.
Adding another 2GB of internal storage makes sense. It's only a few Euros (manufacturing costs) and some huge books (in my case travel companions and Garfield and Dilbert cartoons) quickly can make you reach the 2GB limit.
But why should they add an SD card?
4GB at some stage (3 years?) might increase to 8GB. But who, on an Amazon reader, could make use of 32GB or 64GB? I'm pretty sure, there's very few buyers with more than 5000 from Amazon purchased books (and of course they have that kind of data). So anything above, let's say, 4GB, for 99% of its users has to be sideloaded/pirated content.
Why do others offer SD card slots on their readers?
They can't compete with Amazon regarding content sales (who can, at this stage?), so they have to make their hardware more interesting.
How so? By opening it for all kinds of content.