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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Personally, I am against exclusivity for eBooks. I don't want to see an eBook come out in just one format. These days they should be in two formats at least those being ePub & Mobi. LIT is dead so that's not going to happen and I think eReader is mostly dead but it still possible for that format.
So really, there should be no real reason for exclusivity. All that does is piss people off and generate overall lower revenue for the publisher and/or author.
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ever encounter the situation where a bookstore did not carry any books from a particular publisher because the publisher cut a deal with a different store?
And I do hear what you are trying to express. I too wish there was a genuinely open format w/o DRM but that is not the real world and never will be. So best I see we can do is work with what we have. In that light Kindle books are no less open than DRM'd EPUB. Both have reader apps which work on pretty much all platforms, even Sony is taking a whack at a reader app these days.
So, I don't see the issue other than a given brand of store owned reader does not read the format of the other company. Yet is someone owns a device that is not branded to a bookstore odds are high there is the ability to run an app for both.
Like I wrote, I hear what you are saying, just it's not gonna work that way, yet. Critical mass in terms of ebook sales has yet to be achieved. Plus I have yet to find a book I wanted that Amazon has not carried yet another bookstore did. Long as this is the case, I don't care and I expect to be long dead before that is a real issue, if it ever becomes one.