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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
Okay, but isn't it correct that Amazon has essentially walled off their content from other e-readers .
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Compared to, say, Apple, it's pretty low wall, with lots of spaces to walk through. On the wall spectrum, it's far more a wall of encouragement than of imprisonment.
Amazon created a REALLY REALLY GOOD AND POPULAR ebook ecosystem, and part of it's success is because it works so well, people keep CHOOSING to operate in it.
If some significant fraction of the market were telling Amazon that they would love a Kindle, but would only want to buy books from ADEPT-epub retailers, never from Amazon, then Kindles would probably read ADEPT-epub books (or Amazon would stop making Kindles),
And if enough of the market was telling them they'd love to buy ebooks from Amazon, but they all want to read on Nooks, Kobos, and other lesser-known brands of eink readers, never on a Kindle, nor on any of the other platforms that Kindle Reader software is available for, then the Amazon store would be selling ADEPT-epubs (or they would indeed be licensing out their DRM system.)
But that's not happening. In the gazillion-dollar markets that Amazon cares about, Kindle is already the #1 eink reader, and their store is the number one store, so why would they change?
Amazon is in the business of selling stuff from Amazon, not from other retailers, right?