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Originally Posted by dgatwood
More significantly, you could say that Amazon has:
- Deliberately used a proprietary format for which non-proprietary equivalents exist.
- Refused to allow publishers to submit content in those formats unless it was created with Amazon's own tools. (Yes, some people have gotten away with it, but I'm pretty sure that the policies say not to do so.)
- Included provisions in the terms of use for those tools that make it unlawful for publishers to sell those books in KF8/KFX format through any other site.
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While those things might offend your sensibilities, nothing there--singly or collectively--breaks any laws anwhere on the planet and is no different than anything done by Nintendo and Sony for decades or, more recently Apple and Microsoft. Amazon did nothing with Kindle that Rocketbook and Sony didn't do first. They just executed better.
There is nothing illegal about proprietary systems. Nor about large market shares earned through legal means.
If all the time spent bad-mouthing Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech giants were spent looking after consumer needs, maybe there would be more options to choose from.