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Originally Posted by tomsem
As long as they don't lose any money on the ones they sell, they win, because they will sell something from the Kindle Store at huge margins and discourage purchases from competing ebook retailers, since they are incompatible with DX.
And unless I'm missing something Amazon does not stand to make any money on sales of digital textbooks if they are PDF format.
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I agree that the DX is an experiment, and it is one with almost no downside for Amazon. Part of the "experiment" is: will enough people buy a 9.7" device just for ebooks and PDFs? If not, then Amazon will sell more Kindle 2s.
I did have higher expectations for the PDF part of the device, I think Amazon may be loosing an opportunity to slam the door in its competitors faces. Amazon understands books, but not PDFs (e.g. scientific journals and work-related documents in general).
You might be missing something about PDFs. Amazon did not say they won't sell PDFs with DRM (or did they?). Adobe said that Amazon won't be using Adobe's ADEPT DRM, but Amazon can still encrypt PDFs if they want or sell them DRM-free. So far as I know, Amazon did not say they
would sell PDFs either. It is still up in the air, and it may be that initially only the demo projects at Universities will get PDF textbooks.