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Originally Posted by iandix
I can kind of understand the publishers here... but 26 is far too few, it should be about 100. But the publishers are also wrong on saying ebooks near wear out, that's not true.. the format becomes obsolete. Look at the libraries that got into ebooks early, they have large stock of .mobi format books that cost them money and less and less people want. Some are slowly replacing these with new epub books (which they have to pay for again). What will happen when the next cool format hits the main stream?
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I thought most libraries offered epub to begin with, not mobi, and library access was one of the non-Kindle device selling points. How are less and less people wanting the format used by the currently dominant device?