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Marketing, first mover advantage, brand recognition, entrenched userbase, ubiquitous company name.

People use Kindles because they’re the easiest to find, most well known, integrated with one of the most popular online shps on the planet that also encourages easy publishing, were one of the first, used to “just work”, don’t need to be changed, already have their books on there, and so on.



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