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Generally speaking my personal experiences with Amazon have been good. However, I’ve similarly shifted most of my online purchases elsewhere because (1) I don’t trust the reviews anymore and (2) I don’t trust Amazon’s suppliers.

Ironically, my purchases on Amazon these days are almost exclusively books and ebooks.

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Same, but for books I've switched to my local bookstore. Mainly because I would like to continue having a local bookstore. Now that I don't have Prime anymore, cost and speed are about the same.

I've been meaning to check out alternative ebook vendors too. Anybody have something they like on Android?

I like Kobo out of the big players. Google feels like they could give up anytime. I've also had issues getting downloadable ePubs from them.

If you like SciFi/Fantasy, Baen sells ebooks direct with no DRM on their website in multiple formats and have for like 20 years. Some other publishers do this too like Image comics. Most don't though so you need to go through one of the bigger stores unfortunately.

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