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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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I kind of agree with Jeremy. I got the Kindle 2 because of the huge selection of books on Amazon at reasonable prices and its wireless feature. I also bought it for its file support (including unprotected MOBI and PRC). In comparing books and prices with mobipocket I really do not see me wanting to buy books from mobipocket over Amazon. I bought 100+ books from ereader over the last 4 years and feel it was a waste. I can't transfer the books legally. I want to buy books from a company that I think will be around for a long time, have a huge selection of books, and have cutting edge reader hardware. Amazon fits that bill. If I'm going to invest in e-books I want it to be a company like Amazon.
I'm not happy with Amazon's stance on DMR or the what they did with mobileread but I'm not going with another reader (or not one at all) because of it. No offense to anyone who has a Sony Reader but I'm not going to settle for a Sony Reader and less choices with books because of what Amazon has done. In my mind the Kindle has a lot more going for it than the Sony Readers. Also, In my mind Sony really is not any different when it comes to this stuff (the are actually probably worse).