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Originally Posted by jhowell
To me that just doesn’t fit with what Amazon is doing. My hypothesis is that they are doing what they can to promote lock in to their reading infrastructure. They don’t appear to be taking any steps to discontinue their older file formats. They are happy to let you read on a Kindle, even a very old model. The areas where they keep making changes relate to being able to take Kindle books out to be read on other platforms.
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I wonder what motivation they have for doing this. It won't add new customers, it will take away those customers who read their Kindle books on other brands. What's the benefit? Why not allow Kobo and Pocketbook users to continue buying and converting? Are they hoping all those people will now buy a Kindle? That would mean selling the hardware is more important to them than selling the books.