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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).
But you can use them on other devices you just get rid of the drm which is legal in the uk.(if it is not legal in your country maybe it's your government you should be angry with as they are the ones restricting you what you can do with your property) Same way making a copy of a cd you bought is as long as it's not for distribution also I was under the impression drm was something the publisher specified to have on as not all books on amazon have it. If you look at sonys or other ebook readers drm is also present.
I still don't get the whispernet thing though, as you said third party's can use it to deliver books to you(so not closed network) and of course the kindle is not a tablet so the other Internet stuff does not work very good, but if you wanted that you should have bought a tablet.