Thread: Charles Stross on eBooks
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Old 05-11-2010, 02:34 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by calvin-c View Post
It's always seemed to me that Amazon was more interested in selling Kindles than ebooks. That's what the big fuss with the publishers was-they were selling ebooks for less than they were paying the publishers, taking a loss in order to grow the market for Kindles.

So I really don't think Amazon was concerned that people were buying Kindles to read books from other sources-I think they were concerned that they were buying the cheaper Kindle books to read on other devices.
Really? I think the exact opposite. I think Amazon is happy to have their eBooks on as many devices as possible...the Kindle was just the easiest and quickest way to get the platform established.

Which is why there are now Kindle Readers for the iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Mac platforms.
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