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Old 08-15-2010, 11:04 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post

And if they ever see a need for ePub, they'll probably do what B&N and Apple did and wrap it in their own DRM. It'l be one cold day in (you know where) when Amazon caves in to Adobe's monopoly.

(Don't see what the ADEPT infatuation is all about; lock-in to Adobe is no better than lock-in to Amazon.)
I don't see Amazon bothering to change formats with their DRM when they already have so many books in Mobi. The only thing that would force that would be something like the Agency 5 saying they are tired of outputting so many formats and forcing everyone to ePub.

I don't think people worship ADEPT so much as OverDrive supports it, and people want library books. Which is why I don't see Kindle supporting ePub or ADEPT. There is not enough gain in Kindle device sales for Amazon to build in supporting library books.

So thank you Nook and Sony for doing so.
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