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Originally Posted by brecklundin
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Maybe not, but they won't SELL it to you unless you can prove you have one of their devices. Or has that changed lately?
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download Kindle Reader for the PC....the software for the IpOd/touch...so Amazon is targeting getting their reader software on other platforms in order to compete. Then you can jailbreak your AWZ books and read them wherever you wish. And I don't see Amazon converting every title to Topaz anytime soon...
I sense Amazon is banking on Win7 on a lot of mobile devices. |
Just some idle thoughts...
So you need a PC (I have a Mac) and an iPhone/iPod Touch (I have neither). So to save a few bucks on Amazon books, I need to fork out hundreds of $$$ (or even more Euros) on a bunch of other devices/computers I don't need. Not really makking a lot of sense to me...
I have complained for (literally) years about the Sony and Amazon restrictions on selling their devices and eBooks outside the US. It's slowly opening up, but I'm afraid the horse has bolted as far as I'm concerned. I will
never buy a Sony or Kindle device thanks to their ridiculous past policies, and advise others who ask me to do the same. Of course, each person must ultimately make their own decision, so I make it clear that that piece of advice is my opinion only.
But claiming a heartless leviathan like Amazon is better and will "win" the eBook wars is ludicrous. There are too many "victims" of the Sony/Kindle market restrictions around the globe for that to be forgotten anytime soon - so now it's payback time, and the only weapon a consumer has is to spend their hard-earned $$$ elsewhere - which I do with glee.
Most of our US eReader cousins are fairly ignorant of just how frustrating these restrictions can be when the only eBook version out is a Kindle copy. They got a little taste of the restriction blues when some titles were restricted against US customers - and didn't that raise a (brief) storm of comments on this forum! But those restrictions were mainly due to an error, as I understand it, so it as short-lived.
The rest of us have to suffer on. Add to that the extremely ironic deletion of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles some months back - definitely an undocumented feature of the Whispernet technology, but a timely warning to us all to protect those e-purchases from Big Brother's prying eyes.
In the end, my sentiment is Screw you Amazon and Sony...
