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Originally Posted by daffy4u
I don't know about that. Amazon makes it so freaking easy to buy books with the Kindle that once you try it (and you will out of curiosity if nothing else), you're likely to stick with downloading from the Kindle store.
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I think it not only means the easy to buy books, but also, the fact that you can only buy books at one source (Amazon) unless you can find DRM-less books. The key phrase is, "multiple sources". And the less tech-savvy people won't remove the DRM from books.
Also, it is starting to look that ePub is going to take over from Mobipocket. And as far as I know, the Kindle doesn't read ePub. And lastly, I saw a map of Whispernet availability. And a lot of the US is still white.
So, if Amazon doesn't want to lose its edge (it does have one, the idea of Whispernet is still good and the fact that you can buy a lot of books from Amazon), it will have to adopt ePub as well. And allow non-kindle users to buy ebooks from their site. They are now missing out on income because of that.