{"id":2822,"date":"2009-08-11T06:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2009-08-11T06:11:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T11:11:33","slug":"is-amazon-painting-itself-into-a-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2822","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon painting itself into a corner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MarketWatch <\/strong>has an excellent <a title=\"Who you calling Betamax?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/kindle-in-danger-of-becoming-ebooks-betamax-2009-08-10?link=kiosk\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a> that highlights the dangerous game that Amazon&#8217;s playing. While the rest of the eBook world moves toward some kind of universality with the EPUB format, Amazon&#8217;s sticking to its guns and selling a version of its Mobipocket format for KINDLE&#8217;s only. (Or the Kindle Reader for iPod.)<\/p>\n<p>That presents a bit of a gamble to Kindle adopters as the rest of the eBook Market seems poised to put the emphasis on selling untethered eBook Readers capable of reading eBooks from <em>anywhere<\/em>. Why hook yourself to a piece of technology that lacks adaptability (the Amazon-only-Kindle) and carries a sometimes uncomfortable relationship with its maker?<\/p>\n<p>If Amazon is smart they&#8217;ll cut the umbilical, dump the proprietary format, bring the price of Kindle down and open it up for the user to control. Then start selling eBooks, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch has an excellent article that highlights the dangerous game that Amazon&#8217;s playing. While the rest of the eBook world moves toward some kind of universality with the EPUB format, Amazon&#8217;s sticking to its guns and selling a version of its Mobipocket format for KINDLE&#8217;s only. (Or the Kindle Reader for iPod.) That presents a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2822\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}