Thread: Amazon no longer sells ePubs in favour of Kindle eBooks
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Old 08-25-2012, 02:43 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
ePub is an industry standard because everyone but (Apple is iffy) Amazon supports ePub. When you look at sales world wide, ePub sells more then Amazon's formats.
The Kindle format met industry standard back when Mobi was originally created. Arguably it still meets that standard. And I think it's just as standards compliant now as anything else on the market.

There are at least half a dozen variations on the epub format, most of which are mutually incompatible. And then there's the DRM issue, which causes even more comparability problems.

Given that you cannot read an iBooks Epub on the Nook, I don't see where anyone has reason to hold Kindle incompatibility against Amazon.
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