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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When you see an eBook available for sale for say $12.99 or $14.99 and then look at your libraries collection of eBooks and see the ePub version available to read for free, the person with the Kindle will wish he/she had a device that handled library eBooks. This is one area that Amazon is going to lose out on and lose out big time.
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For now, and again, the Kindle is marketed toward book-buyers not book-lenders. I can't remember the last time I even visited the Library, and with the dearth of freely available content online and at Amazon, I cannot see a point in the future where I'll ever need to visit one again.
Two things tipped me over from ePub today, and for me they outweigh everything else. The first was the price. It's the right price for the device to make me pre-order immediately. The second is that I know I can support independent authors more effectively through Amazon than I can anywhere else. I know that if I buy a book from an indie through Amazon they'll be getting a far better deal than with the traditional publishers (plus I can actually buy content without DRM or restrictions through these very same independents).
Amazon have won, that means .mobi has won, which means we'll probably see lots of devices and deals coming up from different manufacturers that will support the Amazon ecosystem and the Amazon formats. It's not a bad day for e-reading, it's a watershed day that signals a greater adoption in the future.
