dutom

I block ads, and am seriously considering putting ads on my next website. My only defense against hypocrisy is that there's nothing stopping users blocking ads too. Obviously if enough people did block ads, I'd have to rethink the biz model.

I don't feel this is particularly evil - just trying to get by...

Epub would've been nice for us, but this makes more business sense.

The Kindle devices are cheap & low margin; Amazon's profit is from the content. They've got a customer mindshare majority (What's an ereader? Oh, you mean a Kindle), and a large author base. Why would they open up their devices to competing publishers?

I believe IBM still support OOo. At the time of the fork, they were (and still are) making Lotus Symphony (free as-in beer, based on OOo code)

  OpenOffice.org - Apache License
  LibreOffice - LGPLv3