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Originally Posted by TallMomof2
I showed my neighbor my DX and she her husband fell in love with it. They ended up buying 5 K2s, one each for themselves and their 3 children. I mentioned other readers including the Sony reader and the upcoming Nook but what sold them on the Amazon device was the ease of purchasing and downloading ebooks and availability of the reader.
My neighbors are technical but are not interested in liberating their books or reading library content. They just want an easy reading experience. As long as they stay within the Amazon ecosphere they'll be happy.
Win or lose the Kindle has had and will continue to have a huge effect on the electronic reader market.
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Your points are valid for a simple "plug & play" approach to reading - buy the device, buy the eBooks, download them, read. But that model only works (for now) in the US market. And whilst the average user may not want to bother with "liberating" eBooks and/or converting to other (better) formats, that also is fine for now. But what happens when they do wish to read those books on other devices, or upgrade their devices, or as Amazon has already done, they decide to "delete" content from your device withoit consent? Call me paranoid, but I like to have control over the content I buy, so for now, I'm very skeptical about the Kindle.
Having said that, there is no doubt they are a powerhouse in the eBook market. But we do not want a winner - because winner equals monopoly (or close to it). Having those other readers and formats out there is what keeps Amazon pressing ahead wnad improving. So let's hope they never win, but keep trying. And the others will keep trying to grab some of the international market share as well.