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Originally Posted by JoeD
Well the answer to this is simple. Stop recommending the kindle to friends/relatives. It's a closed system and if Amazon are going to go after legitimate customers who just want additional places to buy their books, then I see no reason to drive further business their way.
Recommend the Sony reader, BeBook or CyBook instead. The latter two both support mobi whilst the first supports ePub (which admittedly isn't all that common for purchases yet).
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I think this has less to do with people buying books other places than people using the PID to strip DRM. I think there's a reason this started with the influx of iPhone users. Without this script, they can't get their PID and liberate their books to read on other devices and possibly share. If you're willing to strip DRM there's nothing at all stopping a Kindle owner from buying books elsewhere and reading them on the Kindle. You can use any PID registered with the store for that. Not just the Kindle's. I really doubt there are many Kindle owners that are buying books at other stores. The Kindle store is usually cheaper and generally more convenient.