Thread: Amazon no longer sells ePubs in favour of Kindle eBooks
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Old 08-20-2012, 01:54 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Actually it is Kindle that doesn't care to support industry standard formats. They have a proprietary format that is unique to them. Amazon doesn't seem to care about alienating the rest of the entire eBook industry by requiring publishers to use their special format which until the KF8 was archaic.

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All of the major sellers use a proprietary format. Even if it's bundled in ePub, putting proprietary DRM on it makes it no better than Kindle books in that regard.
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