Isnt there some Amazon-rant-thread somewhere? We could continue there
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Sure, any company does (unless they think it entirely unfeasible).
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Problem is: It IS feasible for Amazon to get such a monopole. They already are willing to use their market power to force publishers into agreements (e.g. either the publisher enlarges Amazons profit margin or the books are removed from several link-lists) - and I really dont want to see Amazon getting a quasi-monopole on eBooks.
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That said, I'd prefer it if they adopt ePub over Mobi, as the format sucks less (and will be readable forever), doesn't exclude other platforms, etc. But as long as some of those retail companies have digital versions from which they can brew those "sold" versions I expect we won't have too much of a problem.
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Well ... why did'nt they use the normal mobi-format but instead forced an arbitrary different "Kindle only" format? (I actually dont care about the difference - it is not possible (out of the box) to use the kindle with other stores, or to use their eBooks with other readers)
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But it's only a bad thing if other players don't jump in (and there has to be more interest once companies start noticing that there's money to be made there (like sony might have).
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If Amazon would be willing to let other stores sell Kindle-Books or let Kindle-Users use other DRM-formats - which they seem not to be...
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But I expect that once other readers become bigger, they'll have to offer books to them as well, in order to keep those people as customers.
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Yes?