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Old 08-21-2010, 12:50 PM   #28
Elfwreck
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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)
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.
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.
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