Title: Closed platform!
Product review: Kindle 2 is a great piece of engineering. It is aesthetically pleasing, works wonderfully, and is durable. The problem is it's content.Users need to know - just like for a long time the only place your could legally buy music for your ipod was the itunes store (leading apple to dominate the market to this day), for kindle, the only place you can legally buy most e-books is from amazon!It's not like this for all e-book readers. The sony reader, for instance, is an open platform, enabling booksellers anywhere to sell books for it. Amazon is trying to corner the market for ebooks early in the game using the apple business model, and YOU, THE USER, SHOULD NOT LET IT HAPPEN.The future is ebooks, like it or not, and if amazon is the only one that can sell them, that means that every small bookseller is out of business. Just think of all the music stores in your town that have closed because of mp3's.DEMAND THAT AMAZON MAKE THE KINDLE AN OPEN PLATFORM! or buy the sony reader instead.
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