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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Pre-ordered.  Amazon won the format war and are now the de facto standard. It's over now for ePub (much to my disappointment), but I'm not bitter. Well played Amazon, well played. |
Sorry, but you are so WRONG! If ePub was the losing format, then Overdrive would not be supporting ePub and instead supporting AZW. The problem is that people by the Kindle and then want to borrow library eBooks and can't. Can't even borrow PDF. I'm not talking people who know how to strip DRM and format convert, but the average person who has no idea about DRM stripping/converting. For the people who want to borrow library eBooks, the Kindle is the wrong choice of reader.
Amazon should do something about that. But they won't because Jeff would have to give up control of the format of eBooks and allow content (with DRM) to be able to be purchased away from Amazon and he won't do that. Jeff's saying that the technology is changing too much to have ePub is pure BS. All of the enhancements Amazon has made to Mobipocket (aka AZW) they can make to ePub.