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Originally Posted by pshrynk
I'm seriously considering sending my K2 back and getting a iLiad. It's worth the extra $300 to me to not have this carp going on.
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I'm quite happy with my iLiad, but be aware that support is largely a community effort right now. (Then again, the community developers have been making more progress and are more responsive than iRex ever was.)
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Originally Posted by shelleyp
In this case, what Amazon is saying, in effect, is that the company is not allowing DRM-protected books purchased elsewhere on the Kindle. If we're using an Apple analogy, it would be same as saying you can only use Apple created software on a Mac. Now, does that sound reasonable to you?
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Actually, that sounds rather like another software company... one that charges you for their OS for every computer you buy that could possibly run it, whether or not you buy their OS, and tries to convince you that their proprietary web browser can't be removed from their OS without breaking everything.
Today I found some information about a book I'm interested in online. Normally my next step would be to go check the price at Amazon. I went to the B&N site instead (though I'll also check Powell's, of course). Unfortunately, I already paid my "Prime" membership this year, but I just turned off auto-renewal. Maybe if enough of us do that, it will start to send a message. I've bought my textbooks from Amazon for the past few years, as well as other incidental books not available as ebooks. That's a fair piece of change. That business will be going elsewhere until/unless this is resolved.
Edit: I just realized that my Prime membership had renewed on March 10, and nobody had used it yet... so I cancelled it.