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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
When I went looking for a case for my Kobo, I started at Borders and Kobobooks and ended up at...Amazon. When I went looking for a book by John D. MacDonald, I found none anywhere...except one at Amazon.
I hate the proprietary format and honestly don't see a need for it. If Amazon sold ePub as well, they would basically own the ebook market. So, B&N or Sony or Kobo would make an initial sale of their reader, but most people would end up back at Amazon for the ebooks. They just do it better.
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It leaves one to wonder if they (Amazon) feel that they should emulate the
Apple I-tunes model? I totally agree that they could offer more than other
distributors, due to the advantage of their volume of sales, no matter what
format was used, common or not. Amazon must be aware that "Kindle books"
are being read using other readers, all the time. Forcing their customers to
go through an extra effort to make their product usable cannot be good for
long term customer relations.
Luck;
Ken