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Old 04-21-2011, 05:44 PM   #193
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What Amazon is doing is stealing features from other readers. Lending it stole from B&N and library eBooks it stole from all those other readers using ADE.
So you've been castigating Amazon all this time for not switching to epub, even though by your logic, it would have been "stealing". tsk tsk.

Why, only just yesterday, you said this:
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
And if things go like we think they will, this means that instead of the library getting say 20 titles in a purchase, they'll be getting 10 titles instead because they also have to support the Kindle. This is not going to do well overall. And I don't think libraries will be happy when they purchase something in say ePub or Kindle only and then have the other camp complaining to them.

Overall, the best solution would be for Amazon to support ePub with the time limited DRM. Then because of that, users will push for full ePub support and then we can kiss AZW goodbye. That would be awesome.
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