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It is not temporary, it is a fact! And basically put B&N books on the same Amazon's predicament: you cannot read Amazon or B&N books outside of their own world, not without removing DRM protection. So it is the same thing, just seeing from a different perspective or lens (Amazon or B&N)
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Did you miss the part where I said one does not need to buy from B&N to read a book on the Nook? Books from Sony and Kobo can be read AS IS by the Nook. Can the Kindle do that?
Also, you have chosen to ignore the subtle point I inserted about ongoing developments for each platform. If you go by facts as they stand now, the Kindle does not support any book lending whatsoever and this is an important feature for the OP.
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The point is not just epub, mobi, azw, the main thing is buying from an online bookstore where you can find all or most of your favorites titles.
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On the contrary, format is very much the point. Amazon is locking customers (many of them unsuspecting) into it's proprietary ecosystem. Theoretically (and I am not claiming Amazon would do this), these customers can be later milked at will. There is precedence for this kind of thing - MS Office with it's proprietary file formats for instance.
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So yes, a "universal" ebook format would awesome for customers and will get rid of the switching ereaders and buying books problem, but that is not happening right now and pushing ePub as a format would be the same as pushing azw, after all, Amazon is #1 seller in books and ereaders. So, why we should push ePub for 2 or 3 ereaders that have just a minor share of the market and not pushing for azw?
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Universal book format would be great! With the exception of Amazon everybody is on board with EPUB. Once Amazon joins the EPUB club, it would be a universal format. As for pushing EPUB vs pushing AZW, the problem is precisely that Amazon is doing nothing to push AZW. I don't much care which format wins as long as as everybody is using it. Amazon is neither sharing it's own format, nor using the format everyone else uses.
Technically, since Amazon has not been releasing it's sales numbers, your claim about it being # 1 is conjecture.