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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Interesting. Thanks Andrew and Harry for the info.
So let me know if I got this right, because I may not have:
-2004: Amazon begins creating a device for a small, nascent market. Though not the first of its kind, they invest in the device and a restructuring of their company to support it to an extent that nobody had done previously.
-2005: Amazon purchases Mobipocket, which they had chosen as the primary format for the product they were developing (along with its supporting products such as mobile phone/PC software), ostensibly optimizing it for this format; a logical format choice at the time.
-2007, September: Two months prior to the Kindles's launch, epub is chosen as the IDFP standard.
-Amazon's venture is a success to the point that for all practical purposes it gives birth the market in its current state, and dominates.
-A handful of other companies capitalize on this success, but choose epub as as their primary format.
-Amazon is criticized for not adapting their device to a different format they claim is inferior for their product, made "standard" after the Kindle's development and then utilized by a small handful of competitors.
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Sounds about right to me, from what I understand...