Thread: How can we convince Amazon to sell ePub format?
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Old 01-17-2011, 12:16 PM   #293
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I'm holding back on this at the moment because I am a fairly new ebook reader. I'd like to see how things evolve. At the moment I'm enjoying a lot of free or cheap classics on the Kindle but I have been disappointed to discover how many Amazon books are available only in DT format. Then I sometimes find that the same books are available elsewhere in ePub. I am a bit lazy when it comes to doing things like stripping DRM and then changing the format so by and large I just give those books a miss at the moment.

I assume that as the ereader market expands, more publishers, not wanting to miss out on Amazon's customer base, will start issuing books in mobi as well as ePub. But it will take a long time for the format wars to get sorted.

Would it be stupid for me to buy a different ereader such as a Sony just for reading ePubs now?
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