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Originally Posted by aagstn
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 I don't want to hassle with converting hundreds of books to an out of date mobi format.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.
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Competition is a good thing. Too early a standardization of ebook format could lead to major loss of possible functionallity.
I have no problems having my ebooks in multiple formats, I have over 600 ebooks from Baen and I have all of them in seven different formats, just in case. Hard drives and flash drives are cheap, the security of knowing that I can switch to another ebook reading device without loss of my library is priceless.