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by m0zg 2209 days ago
Amazon is a monopoly on Kindle, which is what the author has issues with. It's sort of like if there was only one manufacturer of a printing press and they forbade you from printing anything they don't like on it.

Also, every time a rebuttal starts with "so", the rest is an attempt at mind reading. Those are always unsuccessful.
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enitihas 2209 days ago
> Amazon is a monopoly on Kindle, which is what the author has issues with.

This makes no sense. Companies all have monopolies on their own products. Apple has monopoly on the iPad, which is a similar competing reading device. Sony has monopoly on the PlayStation. Microsoft has monopoly on Office and Xbox. Are you suggesting that all companies should give up the ownership of all of their products?

There are several competing products to Kindle, like Nook and even iPad (which funnily enough, tried to monopolistically engage in price fixing)

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logicprog 2209 days ago
Plus, Amazon actually doesn't have a monopoly on Kindle. All an author needs to do is render their book to a MOBI and then put it on their website for a paid download and have the downloaders use "send to kindle" through their phone or email. It's that simple, I do it all the time for free ebooks not published on Amazon.
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patagurbon 2209 days ago
No, Kindle can load ebooks from your PC or Mac with the included USB cable.
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