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Originally Posted by rflashman
I think what Amazon wants is a single e-Book service. Since they keep a copy of everything you buy online, they could easily support different (future) devices and seamlessly transfer your purchased content between them. So they are not locked to any single format.
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Amazon's format instantly became the most likely to accomplish this holy grail of single e-book format. Sure Amazon could supply other formats like .lit and LRF, but that means the
publishers must generated the books in these formats
also. From their perspective, why on earth would they want to? Why set up an LRF, LIT
and a Kindle format book when you can just pump out a Kindle version and be done with it -- and (presumably) make as much sales?
Publishers are having a hard enough time embracing e-books as it is, and the plethora of piņatas.... er formats!... is just one more stopgap in the adoption process. I see one format-- preferably made by the guys that sell the most of your (publishers) books -- being key to publishers accepting this whole e-book "thing."
Amazon licensing their format (hopefully it's as good as LRF!) to other companies -- and said companies like Sony buying in -- is something I desperately want to see.
-Pie