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Originally Posted by coolbreeze
Well, time to eat crow. I'm back with a shiny new K3 fresh from Amazon via UPS.
It's simple, really. I just decided to keep my cheap refurb nook for library and ePub needs and moved back to the Kindle platform for all the stuff I've bought over the years from Amazon.
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.
So no, I was never trolling thank you very much.
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Ohhh I can think of plenty of other reasons to own a nook over a kindle, ohh trust you me but this is a kindle sub forum so I'll be respectful
but to Amazon and ePub in general, well, never say never. Who would ever dare to think Apple, the King of all walled gardens, would open up iTunes with AAC format? The impossible can happen.
But for Amazon I think it'll be more of wait and see. Like others have said "why fix what aint broke". They'll let the dust settle from the Holiday sales. Everyone will see a huge spike in sales from the nook, kindle even the kobo etc.
They'll keep an eye on the number of ebooks bought for registered kindle owners and how it correlates with the new kindle owner and old kindle owners.
They'll keep an eye on Google books and of course the Barnes and noble especially the nook color and see how everyone is doing.
If they see their sales plateua and not much increase and they see sudden spikes in sales at Google and BN, even if they still don't match the numbers, IOW's even if kindle books are still outselling the others but the numbers haven't changed much from before and if BN and Google are see huge increases. Then it'll be time for looking at things and be open to other discussions on avenues .
ePub is a nice selling point. Many everyday joe's no nothing about it, We here at mobileread are not the norm, we are a small minority of all the people who own ereaders.
Like I was saying many people have no idea about what formats for what and who uses what. It's when these everyday people FIND OUT from other releatives or co workers or friends who own a non kindle device that they can read from the library, shop where you want when sales are going on, that people become genuinly upset.
My co worker is seriously thinking of buying a nook to go along with his Kindle. One I think he's tired of me teasing about his. But he knew nothing of epub or AZW form and the likes. He heard of of Kindle and bought one. And I know of other kindle owners too that say "You can check out books from the library? Can I?" and trust me these people wouldn't have the faintest idea of how to strip DRM and they are also shocked when I show them Calibre.
So I would say 80% of Kindle owners have no idea you have this benefit on other ereaders and it may have played apart in their decision. I hear alot of "Hmmp If I only knew that I would have look at _____. They just heard of kindle and not the others. Which Amazon deserves to be credited for that. They are the only ones are who do this type of heavy mainstream advertising to create such a strong brand awareness.
So I think alot of factors will come into play, but I seriously wouldnt' rule it out of them adding it on in the future, if Google eBooks takes off and BN starts creeping up. And I wouldn't be shocked if they even opened up the Amazon bookstore in the future.
but for right now they are sitting very well off and in a strong position. But things can change on a dim. Just ask RIM(Blackberry) Time will tell.