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There are plenty of folks who buy from stores other than Amazon and plenty of EPUb readers who buy from Amazon. I would agree that the vast majority of folks buy from the store their e-reader is tied to but that includes Nook, Kobo, and Sony users. People tend to shop where things are easiest for them. For E-readers that normally means the store they can connect to on their device. |
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I know it was the "no exceptions" that I took exception to. "No exceptions" is not another way of saying "generally speaking," which would have made perfect sense.
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I bought a kindle for reading project gutenberg files. I pick up free books occasionally from Amazon if they're linked here (and then remove any DRM). A couple of free books from authors web pages that I've converted from HTML. And PDFs of old books from Google books or the Internet archive. There's more free stuff than I can ever read, without having to pay Amazon a penny. I don't have a wireless router, and there seem to be no public access wifi spots within miles of here, so getting books from Amazon isn't quite as frictionless as Amazon intended. I've never been able to connect to any wifi network so all files have to be loaded via the USB port, and I can't register my Kindle. I had to jailbreak it and put in a fake registration just to get collections working! (And while I was at it, I loaded Duokan on the reader, so I can read Epubs.) |
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For years, I've been saying that what small bookstores need is to work together on a method to sell ebooks easily through their own store portal, giving people a reason to keep coming in. But did anyone listen to me? Nooooo!...
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[ebooks having existed since the 60s, I can't fully claim that this was before ebooks] |
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![]() That being said I do think that the majority of Kindle owners probably do buy only from Amazon and aren't even aware of (or don't care) other options. |
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I used to read while riding my bike too! until the day I tried to put the kickstand down as i was still moving, without losing my place, and sliced into my Achilles tendon. (didn't *quite* sever it all the way through, thank heavens!)
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Ten years from now no one will be using LCD. It's already on its way out.
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Say twenty and you might be right. But since LCD panels have usable lifetimes in excess of ten years, even if production stopped today, they would still be usable and in use 10 years from now. ![]() Even if you mean that no *vendor* will be selling new LCD-based products in ten years the odds are against that prediction. LCD is so entrenched and widely used that it is cheaper and more effective to spend money refining it than developing an all-different alternative. (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=180252) LCD light-valve tech is relatively cheap, well-understood, and still has room to improve. So far it has smoked "superior" competitors like PDP and SED and is still outracing OLED, the current "great hope" for an LCD successor. At some point LCD *will* be superseded but there isn't any candidate out there that could totally displace it in just ten years. But its fun to imagine what the tech that succeeds it would be like: (way) cheaper than OLED, more saturated than Mirasol, less power hungry and more durabe than PDP... It would have to be a wonder tech. ![]() |
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When your livelihood is at stake, you say strange things. Booksellers view them as a huge threat -- much like a bunch of people walking around with guns and you don't have one.
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