His post is flawed from the beginning.
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There are currently three forms of ePub now:
1) ePub from Apple iBooks
2) ePub from Barnes & Noble
3) ePub from Sony/others (which includes public libraries)
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No, there's ePub from Smashwords, Baen, Fictionwise multiformat, Feedbooks, Gutenberg, Mobileread, and dozens of small ebookstores, which work on every device that supports ePub. He's conflating the DRM with the filetype.
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Without using a credit or debit card, I’ve been able to set up an Amazon Kindle Store account, get the Kindle for PC software, and download over a hundred Kindle book samples.
That cannot be done with any other eBookstore.
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Without using a credit card or debit card, I've managed to set up both a Fictionwise & Smashwords account and download plenty of ebooks. (I don't think I've gotten more than a hundred samples from Smashwords, but that's because, by the time I found it, I was more careful with my time.)
I can understand the dominance of the big-6 publishers and their DRM-infected products, but that doesn't mean I have to take seriously any blogger who pretends the filetype, not the DRM, is the compatibility problem.