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Originally Posted by GhostHawk
I wouldn't even consider buying a device where the company also promotes its own "store" and uses proprietary formats. Your almost saying "here, I have more money than I need, take some"
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I think that's kind of silly. Anytime one is buying a book, movie, album or anything that's not a necessity it's a luxury purchase. So it's always basically a case of having more money than you need to live on, so you're exchanging some for some luxuries. I got a Master's and Ph D etc. largely so I'd have the luxury of having more money than I need! I'm far from wealthy, but at least don't have to worry about affording small luxuries like books etc.
If you only read free PD books, more power to you. I read some of them on my Kindle, but also like to read recent books that aren't freely available so I like having an attached book store. I can always buy .Mobi books from other stores that sell them, or buy in other formats and strip DRM and convert if need be--though I never have as I've yet to have something I wanted to read that wasn't available and priced reasonably in the Kindle store.
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If Ford made a car that would only run on gasoline sold by Ford Dealerships, would you buy one? I wouldn't. Even if it had features that I liked, wanted.
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Not nearly an equal comparison as that would severely limit my usage of my car. Being tied to the Kindle store hasn't limited me at all as I've found everything I wanted at a reasonable price, still have easy access to Feedbooks and the other sources for public domain books, and can use other book stores if need be.
Again, I'm no fan of DRM. I hope it dies soon. But for the time being it doesn't really affect me as I re-read books so seldom and the Kindle app is on so many devices now I can still easily read on different machines.
Ideally in the future we'll have DRM free, standard format (epub or whatever) built in e-book stores so we have the super ease of getting books on our devices, along with total freedom to get them from other stores with no need to strip drm and shift formats.