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Originally Posted by issybird
And…. Books are pretty fungible at that. Not entirely, of course (no, Goodreads, I’ll never want to read a cowboy romance, no matter how often you push them to me), but that’s mostly in the sense of, “I don’t want to read that” and not, “I must read that.” If you don’t want to read on a Kindle and if a book is only available at Amazon, why not just read something else? I’m spoiled for choices myself. And maybe the situation will change if you wait it out. Or maybe you won’t care anymore.
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In certain genres, as was pointed out in another thread a while ago, too many authors are Amazon exclusives. Fantasy romance is one of them. I rarely read romances, but many members here do, and that might explain all the non-Kindle users here buying from Amazon.
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It seems simple to me: if the device is more important, read the books in the tied bookstore. If the books are more important, get the device tied to that bookstore. Or, given that most people here have indulged in more than one device, go agnostic.
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I won't buy a book I can't remove the DRM from, and it doesn't matter whether I have the device it can be read on or not. Aside from future-proofing my purchases, I want to change the formatting to what I prefer, and to do that the DRM must be removed. So even if I did still read on a Kindle and Amazon removed any way to circumvent their DRM, I would no longer buy from them.