1. I don't think so. What is innovative about the Kindle if you compare it to Onyx/Remarkable/Sony DP/Mirasol? 2. Putting all others out of competition is Amazo

1. I don't think so. What is innovative about the Kindle if you compare it to Onyx/Remarkable/Sony DP/Mirasol? 2. Putting all others out of competition is Amazons strategy and they do it all too well. But this is one of the main reasons innovation stops. 3. Innovation can also happen bottom up if you give people a chance. Unfortunately mega companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. just buy everything that looks like it could become serious competition. Sometimes they just bury ideas (like it happened to the Pebble Smartwatch) and at other times they use the idea to transform it into something ugly (see WhatsApp). 4. You can probably leave. I think the security mechanism that protects the books can be broken and there are certain resources in the depth of the web where you can obtain a copy. I don't want to tell you to do that - just look at it as a thought experiment ;)