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Originally Posted by shalym
What difference does it make if you get your books from somewhere other than Amazon? Again...if Amazon really cared about that, they would shut down the ability to sideload, rather than make it easier. The vast majority of people buy all of most of their books from Amazon, even if they get a few from other places occasionally.
The number of people who get all their books from other places is so small that Amazon can afford to ignore them completely, in order to make a better experience for the rest of their customers.
Shari
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I agree with you that Amazon probably doesn't care. It likely does collect at least some data on side-loaded books for its own use in monitoring how many Kindle users are buying elsewhere or, for that matter, obtaining pirate copies. This could be a valuable indicator for them. I suspect that percentage is pretty low currently. However, if they were to notice a sharp rise it could alert them to problems.
I suspect Amazon could detect at least some pirate copies. But I doubt they bother to try. There is no gain for them in reporting such copies to the authorities, particularly not when doing so would involve such huge and very public privacy issues. I suspect their main focus at this level would be more on Amazon v. non-Amazon purchases.