Thread: Sorry Kindle, You're Not Invited
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Old 03-30-2011, 01:45 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy View Post
When Apple released the Kindle, ePub was barely on the horizon. It exploded in popularity AFTER the Kindle came out. There's still no real business reason for Amazon to switch formats. Library books don't generate revenue for them. They make their money on book sales, not so much on sales of Kindles.
What about the whole 26-downloads for libraries, then auto-terminate thing Harper Collins proposed for library ebooks? Amazon could (in theory) make a lot on epub sales.
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