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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Uh, not quite.
You can get the readers without the play store. I did.
There's a variety of ways. The easiest is via a browser and 1Mobile.
fbreader you can get from its own web site:
https://fbreader.org/android
It's my favorite. It does what I need and nothing else.
I run it on the Fire HD 10 and on Windows.
And since Play has nothing I need I don't bother with it. |
Alright...a list of other far less “normal consumer friendly” than merely buying a book from Amazon's excellent website.
Is it nicer to have in app purchasing of books? Yes. Does having to use a website to purchase an ebook harder than side loading apps? I don’t think so.
You can be a part of any book ecosystem on an Apple device. Any of them. No other book platform is even close to Apple in this regard. Sure, it’s easier to buy an Amazon book on an Amazon device. But then you'd have to jump through hoops to buy a book from ANY other source.
Same with a Kobo device.
Looking forward to trying out that Walmart $64 pure Android 9.0 device. Amazon subsidized type price point but open platform.