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Stephen Downes

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The reason this is significant is Amazon's ebook store is now no longer restricted to the Kindle. But the vendor's selection of Apple's iPhone is not an accident - it wants to distribute ebooks only onto platforms where the hardware is controlled by the vendor. This allows them to remotely delete any applications from your hardware that they suspect might be tampering with - or competing with - the Kindle ebook format. And they can keep that annoying free content out of the marketplace.

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