[ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[doug livesey]

Hi -- so I have a Kindle, which I love, and I purchase books for it on
Amazon, which I don't love quite so much, once I've realised how locked-in
the platform seems to be.
(Well, I still love AWS, but that's another story ...)
If you can buy EPUB books, and then have access to the actual file, it's
pretty trivial to then convert that to the Kindle format. However the
problem I've had is even getting to the actual file.
Everyone so far seems to insist on some platform to read the books on, like
that horrible Adobe reader.
Is the geek gestalt aware of anywhere where I can buy the latest books in a
form that I can then either read on the Kindle, or convert to read on it?
Cheers,
   Doug.

PS -- Bound to be a tonne of people get a cross-posted email, there, so
sorry about that.
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