Hm Hm... The smaller kindle (same screen) and the better PDF support that is delicious.
The $139 is cheep enough to consider buying another device. This will be the winning model for Amazon.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One of the reasons my mother got a reader was because of being able to get eBooks out of the library,
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I think you fail to see one major problem with your argument.... who is making money?
Any ereader vendor that supports this model is setting themselves up for failure, they might not go out of business but they are cutting themselves off from a large stream of revenue.
Also there is nothing stopping libraries from adopting the Amazon kindle as a format, they did once upon a time have MOBI.
Now onto the ePUB format. While I love this format, and think it's a great idea, as it stands today it's a failure of a format. It has failed to do what it was designed to do, allow interoperability between readers.
When it came out a year ago I made this statement and unfortunately I was right. The format itself is not complicated and uses existing technology that is not new, (XML, ZIP, HTML). They should have focused on important issues like device compatibility, DRM compatibility, search/dictionary compatibility and Annotation compatibility.
As it stands today it's up to every vendor today to implement their own way of implementing these features.
I'm really disappointed on the ePUB format, it has great potential, but they move slow and have little foresight to the importance of compatibility. While Amazon has all the features in place and continues to enhance features and content at a rapid rate.
I think the only real player that can compete with Amazon today is Google, but they have yet to show their hand. And the longer they take the harder it will be to compete.
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