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Originally Posted by jocampo
There is not such fragmentation. What we have is competition. That is healthy in a Country like USA. If there are 100 companies that market or sell ereaders, that's good for the consumer, will bring better prices.
The reason why Amazon uses mobi is because when it was in labs (many years ago) was the most common and important ebook format. ePub and B&N or even Sony were not even there. After Amazon hit the market, then the ePub was also implemented. But you don't do retrofit of your product just to satisfy other companies, especially when you have such a successful library like Amazon.
The fact is that the layout and rendering of a regular novel is exactly the same on epub or mobi. There is no benefit of one other the other. Actually, azw has better and higher compression, so the file is smaller.
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You call it competition, I call it fragmentation. There are really only two ebook formats at this point: Amazon's azm/mobi and everyone else's epub. Just like betamax and vhs, just like dvd and blue-ray. Regardless of what you call it, it is not good for the consumer.
Sony retrofitted to epub. Amazon could (and should) too.
Then we truly would have competition. As it is we have fragmentation.