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MrIncredible | 05:41 Fri 15th Apr 2011 | Technology
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Can you buy ebooks from other shops, other than amazon, for a kindle?

Or are you tied to using amazon?

was looking at the prices of ebooks on other web page's and some of them are cheaper than amazon.

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The kindle supports a few formats of Ebooks.

It's "standard" format is AZW files and these are only availble from amazon.

It can also read Mobipocket books (MOBI, PRC), plain text files (TXT), Topaz format books (TPZ) (and PDF files on later ones)

So you can buy books from anywhere in the above formats and they will work on the kindle (though you'd...
07:28 Fri 15th Apr 2011
The kindle supports a few formats of Ebooks.

It's "standard" format is AZW files and these are only availble from amazon.

It can also read Mobipocket books (MOBI, PRC), plain text files (TXT), Topaz format books (TPZ) (and PDF files on later ones)

So you can buy books from anywhere in the above formats and they will work on the kindle (though you'd have to manually transfer the books to the device.)

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