Thread: How can we convince Amazon to sell ePub format?
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Old 01-01-2011, 12:43 PM   #266
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
And we still have not had anyone say why the onus is on Amazon to sell both formats and not Sony, Kobo, and BN.
Because ePUB is a better format[*], with open specification and open future, and it's a standard of electronic publishing. Mobi is a closed format, with important limitations.

* I'm talking about the format, not the readers.
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