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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Mainstream consumers don't care enough about interoperability to make buying decisions based solely on it.
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Yep. A normal ebook reader is happy with Amazon or B&N and buys their books from them, perhaps adding a few PD books if they're adventurous. That's why Amazon wins; their ecosystem has everything they want.
It's us nerds that care about such things, and even then there are things like Apprentice Alf's tools to ease the pain. We may grumble, but in the end we don't
really care; to us, the walls of the walled gardens are so low as to be almost nonexistent.