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Old 01-14-2011, 12:51 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by grooks View Post
If Amazon started allowing Adobe DRM ePubs then they would lose out on a lot of sales through their Kindle store. Amazon makes little to no money on Kindle devices but all of their margin is selling Kindle books.
If BN, Kobo, and Sony started selling Mobi books this wouldn't be a problem. If Overdrive continued using Mobi, something they used to do, this wouldn't be a problem.

Sony is the only one of the well known EReaders that predates the Kindle that did not use Mobi. BN and Kobo came into the market and chose EPub instead of Mobi. Sony, BN, and Kobo all have a DRM on their EPub formated books. BN books cannot be read on a Sony or Kobo without stripping them.

I am sorry but it is not Amazon's fault that the later entries into the field choose a different format. It is not Amazon's fault that Overdrive decided to drop Mobi.

If we are going to complain about formatting issues then people should be compalining about the EPub only stores not selling Mobi as well as Amazon not selling EPub.
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