Thread: Will Kindle become the ereader orphan?
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Old 01-13-2011, 08:24 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
Because Amazon is the evil empire and hence is the one who has to change. Nevermind that Nook and Kobo chose EPub after the Kindle had been out for a couple of years. Or that Sony started with Mobi and moved to EPub. It is all Amazon's fault.
Sony started with LRF, its own proprietary format, before switching to epub. And it was out before Amazon; it could not have chosen to use "Amazon's format" for customer convenience, because Amazon didn't have one when the Sony Readers were first sold.
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