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Originally Posted by Geppetto
I think almost the entirety of the people out of this forum who are buying ebooks do not know in which format they're buying their ebooks and do not even care at all.
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This is a great point.
I was reading an article at Teleread (
http://www.teleread.com/2010/08/25/l...essarily-easy/) called "Lessons From Tech Support," by Chris Meadows, and there were two paragraphs in there that, IMHO, show why I think Amazon will never go to ePub (or will take forever before they even start
thinking about it):
Say what you will about Amazon’s predatory pricing, or their refusal to support the EPUB “standard”, or what-have-you; what you can’t deny is that Amazon has made the whole e-reading process as close to dead simple as possible. You don’t need to sync it to a computer; you don’t need to know anything about a computer to use it. You just take it out of the box and turn it on, and you’re shopping from Amazon.
And if you can’t buy anything from other e-book stores? That means there aren’t all those other e-book stores to confuse you. Let’s face it, some people are going to be more frustrated than happy to have those kinds of choices. As the old saying goes, a man with one clock always knows what time it is, but a man with two clocks is never sure."
I believe Amazon sells books and that's all they want to do. If they are the vendor of choice for a majority of people (even if US-centric), why change? They have a proprietary format That. Just. Works. on a device That. Just. Works.
I can't see Amazon mucking up a good thing. Think of all the CS calls they'd get as people try to figure out ePub vs Mobi/prc/azw.
By the way, that whole article is a good one to read - mainly about people who want things to be, essentially plug-n-play (or who want the convenience of the end result without the hassle of having to get there).
Just my $.02 (USD) from someone who
is somewhat of a geek - and a bit confused by those who aren't.
Marilyn