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Boab said:Are you an MP lol
How very dare you?!
Boab said:Are you an MP lol
hunnymonster said:You know that...
Boab said:you know I was talking to the honourable gentleman in Taiwan
Arrowhead said:Whoa. This will be interesting ...
man of leisure said:
Slow Rain.......chill my man this thread is things that wind you up, me thinks you are winding yourself up.
Regards.
Pete
SlowRain said:Refute the assertion in a friendly manner like hunnymonster is doing. Remarks like this one and your other one just above don't add to the discussion, nor do they contribute to the overall sense of community.
Boab said:I must be reading a different thread to you then.
pedro083 said:Right so if this is a closed network it would not be possible for someone to set up a separate website selling ebooks and have them sent to your kindle through your amazon kindle e-mail address. I know I can send books from my computer to my kindle. Think that's the problem people are struggling to see what actually You mean by it's a closed network.
SlowRain said:pedro083 said:Right so if this is a closed network it would not be possible for someone to set up a separate website selling ebooks and have them sent to your kindle through your amazon kindle e-mail address. I know I can send books from my computer to my kindle. Think that's the problem people are struggling to see what actually You mean by it's a closed network.
The closed network has more to do with Whispernet, as has already been explained in a previous post.
However, yes, you can buy books in another format (.mobi, I think) and send them to your Kindle or your Kindle app. Amazon's closed ecosystem is actually the other way around: you can't legally buy books from the major publishers from Amazon and read them on another e-reading device or using an app other than Amazon's own. It must be Amazon's, and Amazon's only. That will cause a problem if anyone dares to leave Amazon's ecosystem. If they want to legally switch to another e-reading device, they have to forfeit all of their Amazon e-books because those e-books will only work on the Kindle. If they find an app out there that's better than Amazon's Kindle app, they can't use it because Amazon won't let them. It's a very locked down and heavily controlled system. Not exactly open.
Hopefully, the US Department of Justice and the European Commission will investigate Amazon's anti-competition practices like they did Microsoft's. If they can get Amazon to share their proprietary .azw file format like Microsoft has to share their .doc file format, it will make it easier for customers to move between devices and apps at their free will (similar to how you can switch telecom companies but still keep your same phone number).