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It isn't locked down at all. You can read ebooks from o'reilly, baen, pragprog, and many other non-Amazon stores on it right out of the box. It simply doesn't implement competing DRM schemes.
EPUB is not a competing DRM scheme. It's the standard for virtually every other reader and store, and the kindle doesn't support it.
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EPUB is not a competing DRM scheme. It's the standard for virtually every other reader and store, and the kindle doesn't support it.
Which is a completely separate issue from the claim that the kindle is a locked down device that can only view content bought from Amazon. In my experience, every DRM-free ebook store I've dealt with has been happy to sell me a .mobi.
The use of the graph is ridiculous in this post. If the author wants to predict a free Kindle in the near future and back it up with some one line quote from Bezos, fine. However, that graph is pointless. I can craft countless other curves to those four points that are just as "predictive" as that one yet would predict vastly different prices. Further, if that graph was correct, Amazon would start paying us to take K…
Even if Arrington's idea is a year and not a week old it certainly would seem to make sense, especially with Amazon adding free video to free 2day shipping with Prime.
Even though Amazon is not a wholesaler like Sam's or Costco, but I won't mind getting movies at $35 per year. $79 is too much an yearly renewal for what appears to be just a guaranteed free delivery.
$79/yr is $6.60/mo, which is less than Netflix's streaming-only plan and includes free 2-day shipping on Amazon products.
A classic loss leader strategy. Given how much Amazon Prime increases Amazon purchase behavior, this makes all sorts of sense if the cost per unit goes down enough. Details about how Amazon Prime affects purchasing behavior: http://www.quora.com/Who-invented-Amazon-Prime-What-impact-h...
A classic loss leader strategy. Given how much Amazon Prime increases Amazon purchase behavior, this makes all sorts of sense if the cost per unit goes down enough. Details about how Amazon Prime affects purchasing behavior: http://www.quora.com/Who-invented-Amazon-Prime-What-impact-h...
I've toyed with getting a Kindle, but while I would buy the books I don't really want to shell out on the Kindle and not like the feel of it....
So from my perspective this would be killer.
(I guess this is true for other 'small' countries, too)
This is exciting for many reasons but one being educational systems may finally start adopting the digital tablet.
here is the results of the court case: http://www.ada.gov/case_western_univ.htm
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To note, they don't care to make money on the device, thats why you can read your kindle books on Android, iPhone, PC, etc.
It's not they don't care to make money on the device directly, it's just they don't know how to.
The company that uses the revenue model of making money of the device and selling the content for a negligible profit is Apple. That's how they run the iPod department for one. Devices are sold at a high margin but almost all the revenue for itunes sales go to the content providers.