You needn't fear geneaber.
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Originally Posted by geneaber
1. If Amazon gets tired of subsidizing the price of ebooks and no longer remains competitive on pricing I would be stuck with paying higher prices because they have their own little monopoly on selling content to Kindles.
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Most of the books on my Kindle are from ebook stores other than Amazon. Calibre does a
superb job of converting ePub to mobi so as long as you don't mind stripping the DRM (which is really quite simple) you can currently buy from any store that sells ePub and read it on your Kindle. (Note that it is possible Adobe will update its ePub DRM in the future but I expect any future DRM will be cracked in no time - especially as ebooks become more popular.)
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Originally Posted by geneaber
2. If I ever switch readers, the Kindle format would not port over to another reader. Epub has a lot of appeal to me.
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Most ebooks from the Kindle store are just mobipocket files for which the DRM can easily be stripped. From my experience, these convert nicely to ePub (again via the incredible calibre). There are some books in the Amazon store that are Topaz format and have a DRM that hasn't been cracked. These are mostly academic books from my experience so you may never run into them (and you can return the ebook if you accidentally encounter one). Regardless, I expect Topaz DRM will be cracked sooner or later.
As for Amazon jacking up its prices: I really doubt this will happen. There is already much pressure on them to keep it down and the ebook market is only getting more competitive.