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I don't see Amazon offering Apple's ebooks on the kindle.

• ebiester 16y ago
  That has more to do with Apple. There is nothing stopping you from putting other .txt and .mobi files (as an example) on your Kindle.
  • technomancy 16y ago
    Indeed; my Kindle has no books from Amazon on it; it's all .mobi and .txt files I've loaded in myself. That's what makes it such a great device: I get to choose what I load onto it.
    • tptacek 16y ago
      It really sucks that I can't put .mobi and .txt files on my iPad. Damn you, Apple!
      • jokermatt999 16y ago
        Non-iPad owner, so forgive me if I missed the joke, but can you seriously not do that on the iPad/iPhone? Weird. I use my Droid as a USB drive all the time.
        • tptacek 16y ago
          Of course you can do that on an iPad.
    • Terretta 16y ago
      Same thing for my iBooks, which filled with PDFs and epubs, organized into Collections.
• ezy 16y ago
  Actually they do. You see, Amazon has been around quite a bit longer than apple as an online book seller. The books in iBooks? Well, those are a strict subset of what the Kindle has available. I think this might be part of Apple's motivation -- to push iBooks to the forefront, at the risk of loosing BN/Amazon's support for the iPad. It sucks for the consumer, but it'll be interesting to see how it works out...