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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
I simply objected to the truth/myth statement that didn't provide the FULL truth. If you want to take full advantage of a Kindle for reading new commercial books by major authors, you pretty much have to do business with the Amazon store
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Actually, that's not true... For example, you can buy those books from BooksOnboard.com using the PID of your Kindle. Granted, you have to do a little work to figure this out... but it is TRUE.
You can also obtain new commercial books from a lending library that loans ebooks such as the NYPL or Cleveland PL, etc.
There are other questionably legal ways such as buying from another store, removing the DRM and coverting. But, we will leave that aside for a minute.
However, buying commercial books from the Kindle store is probably the easiest and best way to get those books if you are a Kindle owner. I think the myth was that you were LOCKED into some proprietary Kindle format that you couldn't get anywhere else. And that is NOT true. The Kindle reads the defacto standard mobipocket format.
So, I disagree with you that there was subterfuge here. But, I don't think adding something to this question on the Wiki stating that many of the places that do sell DRM free versions are most times books that are less popular or less mainstream selections would be a problem. Heck, that is the point of the Wiki and the thread, to fine tune the questions and answers.
BOb