True, but Amazon owns Mobipocket so they wouldn't be losing profits to other companies if people bought books at mobipocket.com rather than at Amazon.
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Getting Bezos to open up the Kindle so customers can buy more of their ebooks from other ebook retailers is like getting Sony or Kobo to use the latest ePub software from Adobe so that they can read books purchased from Barnes & Noble. Sure, it might please some reader owners, but it's not likely to increase the ereader retailer's profits if the users buy the ebooks elsewhere.
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