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Originally Posted by HarryT
Amazon would have to be idiots to support ePub (and nobody could accuse them of lack of business sense). They sell you a Kindle essentially at cost price because they want you to buy books from their bookstore, not from B&N or Kobo.
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I would contend that it could be
good for business. They don't need to make it their primary format. But if the devices supported it, think of all the customers (dissatisfied with B&N's customer service and pricing, for example) who could easily jump to a Kindle without the need for a special "library conversion" policy. Then they go merrily buying .azw formatted books for their Kindle, quite happily, into the future.
That sounds like smart business.
Even if they did drop .azw as their standard and went to a form of .epub (like most of the other big players), they seem fully capable of competing on service, pricing, and selection. I'm not a big fan of their hardware, but the service and pricing factor can be very persuasive in that equation.