Being certified as a cell phone theres places where you cant use a kindle (hospitals and planes) at least without removing it’s killer feature temporarily, if your going off shore the kindle wont link into any of the network link you might have. And there are the aesthetic considerations.

Looking at itunes you saw that even itunes if itunes became the online music market in the newsroom mind, apple never actually managed to domintate it to the point where the competition folded, theres probably at least as much music sold by other digital services then what apple sells.

Amazon won’t get the MS word effect where you need the amazon client to read 90% of that class of content. With the potential non kindle market 1000times bigger then the kindle market it won’t happen, just as it did not happen for apple.

The kindle is convenient given your not trying to use it outside of populated northern American areas where getting to the bookstore takes 10 minutes anyway, I don’t think this is ever going to be the selling point of the dedicated readers, the history of the net shows that people don’t mind a little inconvenience in getting to the content if this means they get some other benefit.

Why do you think we have any DRM free music at all? It’s because those nasty, evil companies, such as Amazon and Apple, have the commercial clout to get the music companies to change their minds. Nasty, evil companies have something called “buying power” which fragmented, tiny companies don’t have. When the poor, unwashed consumer decides they he, or she, wants DRM free ebooks it won’t be the small provider that puts the pressure on the publishers. It will be the nasty, evil big companies that have the clout to give the consumer what he wants.

It’s a matter of educating the consumer, not the companies.

As a consumer I can see your making that decision; as a publisher, however, I question the wisdom of those words. Will Amazon’s positioning for the future me that Amazon, once it dominates the ebook market because of consumer buying decisions like yours, be able to dictate to publishers like Wiley both cost and content? Are you not bringing your own knife to the throat-cutting party by supporting a seller with its own closed, proprietary system. I would understand your view better if Amazon were selling ebooks for anyone and any reading device, but because the Kindle is a closed system, only Kindle owners can buy and read ebooks from Amazon. It smells to me like a repeat of what happened to the music industry with iTunes — the music industry wanted a higher price and Apple refused and the music industry had little recourse until it got rid of DRM. Is Wiley ready to do the same? Perhaps more long-term strategic thinking is in order.