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Originally Posted by jeremy81
No offense but to the people complaining didn't you purchase it knowing you would be buying books from Amazon. Isn't that the point? If you didn't want to be locked into buying from Amazon you should have chosen something other than the Kindle in the first place. I've been considering both Sony's reader and the Kindle but decided on the latter because I would rather shop at Amazon. It seems kind of pointless to complain considering you had the same choice.
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While yes, I did buy my K2 with the intention of primarily getting my paid content through Amazon. However, not all of the content I was interested was available from Amazon, but is available from other legal sources that thanks to the scripts in question I could purchase and place on my Kindle. With this action however Amazon is taking steps to force me totally and completely into their store.
This would be no different from Apple locking the iPod so that the only music you could put on it was whatever you could purchase through iTunes. No more ripping CD's, no more purchasing from the Amazon Music Store - it either comes from iTunes or nothing. Amazon specifically created the Music Store to compete with iTunes - they'd have a cow if Apple did that.
And before folks compare this to the iPhone app model - there's a few big differences. First the app model from it's very start was that apps had to come from the app store Apple didn't change the game with the app store a year after it was released. Second, Apple may not like the jailbreakers - but they don't serve takedown notices on them. Apple can refuse to honor the warranty on a jailbroken phone but they let the jailbreakers write and post their code...