Amazon is once again demonstrating that buying things in todays world does not mean you actually own them.

Now, books purchased through Amazon are effectively stuck there.

That has, of course, been great for Amazon.

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Bookshop.org hopes to pressure Amazon into changing its practices so its e-books could be supported there.

For now, however, it does not seem like Amazon is too worried about losing its pole position.

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