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Re:The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontin... by 10729287 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:50AM (#43114605)
Totally agree, but unfortunately people (forgive and) forget and that's why those companies keep on doing this.

I myself forgot Microsoft once (cough) sold e-books.

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Re:The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontin... by evilduck on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:38AM (#43115192)
PlaysForSure was also a great name.
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Re:The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontin... by kstrauser on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:52AM (#43116177)
Bonus points if it had been accurate.
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Re:The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontin... by Uvix on Thursday February 20, 2025 @01:09PM (#43118070)
Did Microsoft ever sell directly? They had Microsoft Reader but I thought all the stores were third-party.

However, Amazon did at one point in time sell ebooks in multiple formats pre-Kindle, one of which was Microsoft Reader. (I assume the others were PDF and Mobipocket.) So they have form for closing up shop and killing access to purchases like this.

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