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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But, if your reading program or device of choice uses ePub, then AZW is rather useless.
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Ummm... and if your reading program or device of choice uses MOBI, then EPUB is rather useless. Would you argue that authors and publishers should not be given any choice in where there books should be sold? And if Amazon is somehow evil for not using EPUB, what about those online retailers who don't use MOBI? Somehow less evil?
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And given how rather poor the coding inside a lot of Mobipocket eBooks is, converting can take a lot of time to clean up the mess.
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The file format has nothing to do with how well or poorly a book is coded - that's entirely down to the expertise/diligence of whoever is responsible for the book.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And for a lot of people who do not use Kindles or Kindle software and who do not DRM strip and/or convert, these Einstein eBooks are a lost cause.
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And for anyone who chooses not to read electronic books one could say the same thing. Does that make anyone who only publishes a book in electronic format similarly dastardly and greedy and evil?
Look... I'd much rather see books published in as many formats as possible, but I simply can't agree that publishing in MOBI format only and selling books via a company that provides free applications to enable users of a wide range of devices to read the books, is somehow locking books away from 99% of the population, which is how you're portraying it. If someone chooses not to use a free app, that's their choice - but they can't then turn round and say "you won't let me read that book" simply because it isn't compatible with the specific device they
prefer to use.