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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
Yes, but then a printed book is printed on physical pages of paper. Guess what? An ebook isn't.
I really don't think you do. You continue to propose that Amazon should provide a print book page mapping for ANY book you choose to put on your Kindle. Which is just... ridiculous. You're saying that if I write a book, get it privately printed, then create a MOBI version of it, and sell both the print and ebook versions on my own website, and you buy the ebook and put it on your Kindle, you expect Amazon to get hold of the print book, the ebook, create a print-to-ebook page mapping file, and supply it to you?  |
Providing pages to ebooks is a good advantage for lot of users, especially those who use textbooks. That proposal could be ridiculous for you but not for me and others. In fact, the more features Amazon provides, the stronger the customer relationship is going to be. Customers are not going to stop buying from Amazon just because the device can provide certain features to books that have not even bought on the store itself. Amazon biggest and stronger selling point is not books, but its service and the promise of a good and fast delivery. That's why they are what they are now and people maintain their fidelity.
And by the way, not because a book is in an electronic format, has no pages or cannot have pages. Let me use the PDF example again. PDF is an electronic format, and has pages anyway.