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Originally Posted by NullNix
There are plenty of ways -- for instance, they can see if a given book on the Kindle has an ASIN, and if it does, if the book is identical to the book of the same ASIN on Amazon's own servers (hashing it and sending the hash uses almost no bandwidth so you'd never notice this check happening), and whether you are on record as having bought that book. For all we know they may be checking precisely this: but what they do not appear to be doing is treating users significantly differently based on whether they buy Kindle books from Amazon or not.
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What difference does it make if you get your books from somewhere other than Amazon? Again...if Amazon really cared about that, they would shut down the ability to sideload, rather than make it easier. The vast majority of people buy all of most of their books from Amazon, even if they get a few from other places occasionally.
The number of people who get all their books from other places is so small that Amazon can afford to ignore them completely, in order to make a better experience for the rest of their customers.
Shari