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Well, Amazon removed the audio since audiobooks more than ebooks came from Amazon  and it was a feature that wasn't being used. |
How do you know the audio wasn't used? Now that Amazon has Whispersync for eBooks and audiobooks. I do think audio would be used. But in order to do so, an SD Card slot has to be added back in.
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SD slot because it was more support issues than it was worth.
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Sony has always had a memory card slot and it was never a support nightmare. So I doubt that was why Amazon dumped the card slot. I think they dumped the card slot so they could then dump the audio because there wasn't enough storage for music and audiobooks without the SD card slot.
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Computer controllable collections after idiots got ahold of the tools to manipulate them and managed to screw up their collections horribly, then complained to Amazon about their third-party tools. Amazon decided the quickest solution was to remove an exploit that allowed idiots to screw with the controls. Since they never supported it to begin with.
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Amazon could maybe have fixed that. Sony had it and it was never a problem. Kobo has it and it's not a problem. Amazon doesn't have it, B&N doesn't have it and yes, it's a problem.
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Sideloading ebooks, on the other hand, is the kind of thing you have to do. Leaving aside the issue of how the heck do you know who is sideloading -- most sideloaded books are NOT sent through Amazon's servers, and a surprising number are probably downloaded from MYK and USB-loaded, think people with wired and not wireless internet... and there is no way to distinguish between the two without extensive logging of account activity.
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Take away side loading and you hand Reading over to Kobo. I cannot see Amazon dumping side loading. That would be the end of the Kindle.