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Originally Posted by coolbreeze
I still think if Amazon allowed ePubs and DRM ePubs (Adobe) they would absolutely slaughter the ereader market. Of course they are doing *very* well as is, but library and ePub support would give buyers little to no reason to buy anything else.
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The problem (from a user perspective, at least) is that Amazon isn't trying to corner the e-book reader market. They're more interested in selling Kindle e-books than selling Kindles (as evidenced by the many platforms that are supported by the Kindle reader software). It's more important to them that you can read a Kindle book anywhere than it is that you can read any book on your Kindle.
I think what's going to happen eventually is that DRM will go away for books like it went away for music. I expect it to be DRM-free AZW/MOBI that wins, rather than EPUB though, because I think the momentum is currently with Amazon.