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Originally Posted by Catlady
The point is that on the one side you have Amazon, and on the other side you have everybody else, including the public libraries. As a consumer, I've decided that it's more likely that epub will win the format wars, just as VHS won out over Betamax and Blu-ray won out over HD.
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I think that the VHS/Beta issue is something that everyone should have in the back of their mind when thinking about formats. As for me, I think that epub has already lost. And that even if Amazon does go to epub, they will use their own DRM (as Apple does), meaning that their books will still likely not be readable on Sonys or Nooks.
However, unlike in the VHS/Beta days, at least there are ways of converting ones library to another format, if necessary.