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Originally Posted by boswd
Think about this way, you want a good technical book library to choose from right? The ebook industry is really starting to pick up the pace and is growing in leaps and bounds. Who's to say someone wont jump on this obvious void in the ebook industry for technical books and start up an ebook store and uses ePub or BN's NookStudy just takes off and grows.
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When that happens, 3, 4 or 5 years later, the MS-SQL, Oracle or whatever book I have is too old to keep! At that point I don't want that book anymore. That could be true if we're talking about "El Quijote" or "Cien aņos de Soledad" or any other classic which has been immortalized already. Those books are easily to convert, pure text, like same way I can convert an mp3 Beethoven's symphony to OGG so I can play it without additional drivers on my Linux box.
Neither you or I can tell for sure, which electronic format will finally stay or survive, it could be that the market will keep supporting two or three, at the same time. Everything depends of the sales and what people buy. And people are buying more Kindle books than B&N books, the sales are there, you can Google that.