Thread: Will Kindle get ePub support?
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Old 08-11-2010, 02:23 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by TomF View Post
In an interview with USA Today on 7/29, Bezos gave this reply when asked why Amazon didn't support ePub:

It sounds somewhat arrogant, but if Amazon has their own proprietary format, they can do more with it, rather than a format "designed by committee". You can probably add to the list: annotations, bookmarks, changing font styles, etc.

Amazon's competitors have to support ePub, because they are looking for any advantage they can to beat the #1 selling e-book reader. This may change for Amazon in the future, but for now they're Goliath and they can do what they want. Kind of like Apple.
And yet, they haven't. Unless of course you're talking about that abortion known as Topaz. Mobi isn't all *that* great an ebook format anyway. I agree that most e-ink readers haven't done justice to epub, but it is more versatile.

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