View Single Post
Old 10-19-2010, 04:30 PM   #11
OakIris
Addict
OakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a TexanOakIris might easily be mistaken for a Texan
 
OakIris's Avatar
 
Posts: 310
Karma: 18487
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Colorado
Device: Kindle 3 WiFi; Kindle Paperwhite
Quote:
Originally Posted by susan_cassidy View Post
And how would supporting an obscure format benefit Amazon? They don't add features just for fun, there has to be a cost-benefit justification.
I understand that, but still, ePub is certainly not an obscure format, and I would think they would benefit from supporting it. They could certainly sell lots of eBooks in the format to non-Kindle users at the least, (or is there a DRM problem there?) and since that is where the profit lies, selling lots of books..... But, this discussion is about DjVU, a format that very few people seem to know about, myself included.

Oh well, I am very happy with my Kindle and before I chose the Kindle, I knew that it didn't support ePub, wasn't large enough, screen-wise, to make PDFs readable, (I'd never heard of DjVU, so that format was not part of my purchasing decision,) I knew that it didn't allow borrowing from libraries, etc. I bought it after doing lots of research so I really have no regrets about my purchase choice.

Hopefully alexibm will be able to exchange his/her Kindle 3 for something more to his/her liking.

Holly
OakIris is offline   Reply With Quote