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Originally Posted by jocampo
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.
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sure kindle books sell more than BN books, the kindle is more popular. Amazon was the first to truely market their gadget. They ran commericials took out ads in magazines etc. They got their product to become a household name.
But that is no guarantee that will stay the same. As ereaders in general become more popular the scales will start to balance.
Most people didn't even know other ereaders existed. Kudos to their marketing department.
But that is really changing though. More and more people are starting to discover there are choices. Unlike a year ago.
Right now I think we are in a gray area between the Kindle possibly being the iPod of ereaders and the others, the nook in particular, from getting into the game and competing just in time to make it a more balanced market.
Which I think everyone would agree only benefits us the consumer to have a competitive marketplace.