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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's also easy to think of the past and think... YES AMAZON ABANDONED EBOOKS!
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Amazon abandoned other formats that they were selling for other people. It's not naive to assume that they found the hassle of dealing with eBabel to be more annoying than it's worth. I imagine they had to spend an inordinate amount of time explaining how to read the different formats to people who didn't understand eBooks. They probably decided that they wanted to do eBooks their way. The way they have set up the Kindle with conversion going through them seems to confirm this. It's reasonable, now that they have branded their own format and have gone so far as to create a dedicated reader for it along with a complete store, to believe that they aren't going to just drop it just like that. Their previous attempts at integrating eBooks was obviously experimental and software only. Putting out a hardware reader is a much firmer commitment.
I doubt I've swayed you, but I'm going to take my chances. The convenience and selection are worth it to me. If Amazon ditches their store within 5 years, I'll come back here and let you say "I told you so."