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Haven't read all the msgs. But believe that the Amazon virtual "monopoly" is due to the other companies messing themselves up. e.g. Barnes & Nobel killing the ability to download one's own books easily. Then there is Google books who thinks some purchased books are NOT ALLOWED to be downloaded & can only be read using Google Books.
I encountered the 2nd instance before but didn't care about that "free" book. A few weeks back got into the 2nd example on a text book. NO way will I want to be limited to a wifi connection to read my book & being required to use a certain book reader.
Got my money back from Google & went to Amazon that had the same book & downloadable to my computer as well as the Fire HDX. Did the conversion but it does take a "long" time to convert a 177 megabyte file.
As far as "monopolies" go, get an ipad & use itunes for your books & try to use other ereaders available like Moon+ Reader. Did read that itunes books haven't been "unlocked"; but I don't care as the ipad is too expensive for me to do what I want. I have a Mini Mac & cannot even get rid of itunes which I don't use as "it is part of the system os"; cannot even change the system font size to be readable. Talk about a Fascist company.
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