Thread: Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paperbacks
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Old 01-30-2011, 10:36 PM   #50
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by Ankh View Post
Ah, but the situation with ePub and Amazon's own format is unlike any of the mentioned examples. You can read DRM-free ePubs on pretty much anything else. Amazon stands alone against the standard.
Who gets to decide that epub is the standard? The publishers?

Kindle format came first and has 80% of the US market. That sounds like a standard to me.
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