[cellaris]

No one is obliged either to buy books from Amazon, or to buy e-readers from Amazon, or to have any kind of subscription from Amazon. There are numerous alternatives. If you want to forget about Amazon, you can do so without any problem. Anyone who chooses to use Amazon products (to a greater or lesser extent) does so voluntarily. At least I have never been forced to do so. I don't know if your case is different. Anyone who has no interest in using lousy e-readers and an "ecosystem" designed to make Amazon big and screw the user just has to cut Amazon out of their life. Seems pretty simple to me.

Why don't some of us do it? I have my reasons. But I admit that I am much more intrigued to know why a person who thinks so negatively of Amazon would continue to use their products.

Edit: By the way, several of my e-readers (of other brands) I have bought from Amazon. And the vast majority of the books I read on my Kindle e-readers I have bought from other bookstores and sent using the tools provided by Amazon (Send to Kindle).