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Originally Posted by kacir
They need users to purchase books at their store. This the only reason for the existence of Kindle [sold with a *very* thin margin, I believe].
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Mr Bezos has said that Kindles are sold at cost - Amazon make zero profit from them (
source). They are sold purely as a vehicle for selling Amazon content, so obviously there is no incentive whatsoever to make them "open" to external content.