[Pajamaman]

I find Amazon's standpoint on its walled-garden conflicted.

On one hand, they clearly are invested in their walled-garden. They have consistently used their own formats and deliberately excluded the open format epub.

On the other hand, they have left holes in the garden for those that wish to get their books out.

So it seems kind of pointless. Is Amazon slowly plugging the holes? I'm not sure. Or do they not care that much, but are setting up stronger forms of protection just in case or for the future? Only time will tell.