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As with Sirtel, I still buy a few books from Amazon, mostly books for my spouse which were written by authors who are Amazon exclusive. For myself, I prefer to obtain the books from Kobo or other ePub suppliers if possible. Doing so saves me from having to convert to ePub before editing and allows my saved search collection in Sigil to be used to simplify most cleanup operations though some of those also apply to KF8/azw3 to ePub extractions.
I have never purchased my ebooks from a single source though Baen, Kobo and Amazon are likely my most popular sources (Baen more for historical versions). I also purchase a growing number of my ebooks direct from author stores since it means they will get a larger chunk of my purchase.
Everyone is free to support whom they prefer.
One acquaintance of mine purchased a Kindle Colorsoft a few weeks back which cost him a few dollars more than the Kobo Libra Colour. He now kvetches to me about calibre not properly supporting the Colorsoft. As near as I can tell, he was not listening when I told him on several occasions that Kobo is a more open system that calibre works well with with compared to the walled garden that Amazon offered him which limits what calibre is able to do. Admittedly, he looked at my Kobo Libra Colour before the purchase and never managed to notice the Colorsoft he purchased did not have buttons and had only 16GB of storage which limits the number of mangas he can store on it (most of his manga are colour and in the ~80MB range so about 160 manga fill the ~12GB available storage). OTOH, he can still download his KU loans directly. You makes your choices and you pays your money.
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