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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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To make it work Amazon would have to either:
1- price ePubs higher than azw's and whether the "gouging" complaints of the second-class customers
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So what if Amazon epub books cost $0.22 more than other books? Is that going to make or break a sale? Instead of $4.99, it's $5.21. Or instead of $9.99 it's $10.21.
Kindle users would get the $0.22 price break. Sony/Nook/Kobo users would have to pay the extra $0.22 to buy epubs from Amazon. I can't imagine it would be difficult to implement such a differentiation and offer epubs for sale to users of other than Kindle EBRs.
Now look, I realize I'm quite new to the EBR world and there is much I don't know. My ignorance probably stands out far more than I'm aware.
That being said, I view the format "wars" as a blight on the entire ebook world. From a consumer perspective, I fail to see why I can't read the book of my choice on the device of my choice.
As to formats, when I became aware of the issue during my early EBR research, I learned how to deal with them to accomplish my objective stated above.
Regarding epubs on Kindles, my understanding is that there may be performance reasons not to enable epub capability on the Kindle. As I understand it, making the dictionary functional as it is with Kindles is software specific relative to mobi,. But for whatever reason, dictionary support for epub is hardware specific. If that is true, that may well be a fatal flaw for the Kindle to ever support epub. But that shouldn't prevent Amazon from selling epub formatted ebooks.