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Originally Posted by GlennD
when MP3s were starting to become popular
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I think it is a flawed logic to compare mp3 and e-books. One is a file format after all. And this is, in my opinion, the key to its success. It is a
common format. When DRM-free, you can play your mp3 in (mostly) any music device sold today. We need a common base for the e-readers and tools (software) to work with. We need it to be accepted by the industry. Rather than trying to dominate with their own formats, they should see where this might lead.
What's Amazon's business plan? To sell as many Kindle's as they can? Or to sell as many e-books as they can? Currently, it may be both. But it shouldn't be the Kindle sales that they target... not in the long term... Do they have to make money on each Kindle sold? More Kindle distributed translates to more e-book sales. I think they should try to make money on e-book. But because it's very early in the e-book revolution, the focus is in the wrong place... From that angle, I see the couple e-reader/e-book less like iPod/mp3 but more like console/video-game. The constructors don't make money on their consoles, they make money on the games...