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edanm on Nov 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cutting their own throats

It is against your interest for Amazon to have a monopoly, and DRM is helping give them a monopoly. That's the thrust of the argument.

I really wanted to buy an ebook reader when I last visited the States. As soon as I realized that if I buy anything that isn't a Kindle means I can't access all the books I've already bought from Amazon, I knew I'd have to buy a Kindle. This is a bad situation for a consumer, since I'm locked in to a specific platform. Right now it's fine for me, since the Kindle also happens to be the cheapest offering. But fast-forward 5 years, and if there's no longer competition, Amazon no longer has to make the price affordable for me.

waterlesscloud on Nov 29, 2011 [–]

What other systems can you play your xbox games on?

JoeAltmaier on Nov 30, 2011 | [–]

XBox is a platform, with many, many IP points.

Kindle is a cheesy pad for displaying text. It has 80-hour battery lifetime and .... nothing else.

It would be trivial to display ALL Kindle content on nearly any device. The lock is economic and nothing else.

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