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dlisboa on May 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: OReilly offers 50% discount on ebooks in celebrati...

Not everyone has a Kindle. Giving more choices should be the default. Amazon doesn't do it because they want you to buy their hardware.

Until there's a standard every e-book reader abides to publishers should try to provide for everyone.

wwweston on May 4, 2013 [–]

I'm not sure Amazon cares about selling hardware -- they have reading apps for Android, iOS, OS X, and the web, probably Windows too.

I think it's more a desire to lock you in to their platform and maybe to make buying as low friction as possible.

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