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Originally Posted by nabsltd
If Amazon had every ebook ever made available for sale, then maybe this would be a valid point, but since they don't, and Kindle readers and apps only read Amazon books, then it's just another walled garden locking you in.
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The typical reader doesn't require that "every book ever made" be available to them, but simply that a sufficient range of the books they enjoy reading are available. No bookstore, either physical or electronic, could stock "every book ever made". It's a rather silly standard to hold any bookstore to, if you'll forgive my saying so. I would suggest to you that Amazon's range of books is sufficient to hold the interest of any reasonable reader, as is Kobo's, and whatever other mainstream bookstore you choose to patronise.
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Like Apple trying to "sell" DRM-laden music being replaced by companies that are up-front about the fact that it is a rental (Pandora, etc.). All-you-can-eat audio streaming was one of the things that forced Apple to drop DRM from music sales.
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Er, no. Apple were willing - indeed, eager - to sell DRM-free music from the outset, as is well-known and well-documented. It was the record companies who insisted on DRM, not Apple. In exactly the same way, any book publisher has the choice whether their book is sold with or without DRM at Amazon.