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Originally Posted by nashira
People aren't, mostly, asking for amazon to make ebooks available on Kindles, but to have an option -using adept if possible if it has to have drm (as that's what most other readers use for DRM) - to purchase .ePubs of the books they're already selling in their mobi format. So people can by from the amazon store without having to use a kindle or kindle apps and unless amazon has suddenly got less robust, I'm fairly sure their servers can handle it.  |
(rolls her eyes) Emoticon's don't work at work, no idea why.
I am sure that Amazon has heard the EPub complaint loud and clear. I am sure that Amazon has its own reasons for not using EPub. I am sure that those reasons revolve around making as much money as humanly possible for Amazon. Shall I bitch that BN does not sell books using Mobi so I can buy them for my Kindle?
I know, BN uses that wonderful of all formats EPub like so many other stores do and evil, mean Amazon doesn't. But why don't they sell their books in EPub and Mobi? Surely they are losing money from all the Amazon customers who would buy a book from BN for their Kindles if only they could.
You have several choices:
1)Buy a Kindle or download a Kindle App and enjoy the Amazon bookstore. It is quite lovely. Many books, good prices, easy to shop from. Heck you can now lend books and email specific books to a Kindle user as a gift. It's swell.
2) Don't buy a Kindle or download a Kindle App. Buy books from Amazon, strip the DRM, convert the book, read it on your wonderfully flexible EPub machine that for some reason or other required that you buy a book from Amazon.
3) Don't buy a Kindle or download the Kindle App. Don't strip DRM and convert Amazon e-books. Enjoy the multitude of other choices the EPub e-readers have in order to buy the books you want. Accept that you chose a reader that would not read books from Amazon
4)Don't buy a Kindle or download the Kindle App. Don't strip DRM and convert Amazon e-books. Complain because you choose a reader that would not read books from Amazon but you really want to read books from Amazon and are pissed that you cannot.
The real problem, as I see it, is that folks are finding that they want books from Amazon because they are not available at other bookstores or are less expensive then at other bookstores. Which means that the belly aching is more of a problem with the bookstores that sell EPub then Amazon. Perhaps you should complain to BN, Sony, Kobo and the other multitude of EPub bookstores about not having the books that you want to buy and stop complaining about Amazon chosing a different format.
Or buy a Kindle or use a Kindle app and read the books from Amazon that way. Because there seem to be a lot of faces turning blue and I doubt that Amazon is going to change its policy because people are threatening to hold their breath until they do.
And, yes, I will be happy if and when Amazon adopts EPub. Not because I need it but because it will stop the whinging.