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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Yeah, sure, try converting drm-ed ePub. 
I can de-drm true. But why should I ? Plus, it's losing all the ePub fanciness when the publisher actually bothered with it. I'm not so happy with the result of converting my mobi. Nor was I with the one ePub i converted to mobi. Margins went way to large, and no easy possibility to edit to fix. |
I'm also very happy with ePub. Apparently so is Sony, B&N, Apple and the majority of device makers since they support it. Amazon makes a great piece of hardware in the Kindle, but I also refuse to bend over backwards to get my books and my library books to work on it. I don't want to hassle with converting hundreds of books to an out of date mobi format.
We need to get to a point where we can choose any device on the market and know that our books will work with it. That means Amazon dropping Mobi and it also means B&N and Apple dropping their own drm on ePub and using a standard that works on every device. I feel bad for the average consumer who just wants to buy a book and doesn't want to reverse engineer everything they buy just so they can switch devices down the road. The thing holding back eBooks the most over the past decade has been all these formats and all the different forms of DRM.