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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I read into the "only Amazon" as a single format. Sure, I can buy the eBook from Amazon, strip the DRM and convert to ePub. But why should I have to? Why not have it available in ePub? ePub is the #1 format worldwide.
When you have an eBook only on Amazon, you do cut out a lot of potential customers. And publishing on Smashwords as an alternative to Amazon is not always a good idea as the meatgrinder there can make spam of your eBook. So if we get a nicely formatted (like a book, not an eReader file) ePub, then that can be used as the source to make the other versions (Mobipocket, MS Reader).
I should not have to point out to the author about missing formats. he should know better from the start. However, if you want to let him know of this problem he's possib;e going to create, then please do. I do feel that exclusivity is a good reason to not buy his books. I know legally it's wrong to pirate eBooks. But if an author is going to be exclusive, then let the mast fly and the eBooks loose.
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The "only Amazon" was my paraphrasing! I honestly have no idea if he said "ebook" or if it's available at his website (it's hard to do distribution for epub without Smashwords--B&N will take them direct, but they have DRM so it isn't an epub everyone can read. Kobobooks will *sometimes* take them direct, but you have to have several books. And so on. So it would be Smash or his website.)
At any rate, I get your point!
Maria