Great post. You've got karma.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Contrary to what most enthusiasts and standards fetishists believe, the book-buying masses don't give a hill of beans over the format of the ebook.
All they care is whether they can buy it at a fair price, not which format has a longer specsheet.
Given that the core of the Amazon business is recreational readers the added value of the technical "superiority" of the epub spec is nil; a difference that makes no difference is no difference. Not when it comes to the folks voting with their wallets.
Also, the so-called format war isn't; it's a DRM war.
It's not Amazon vs the world as the epub fans like to pretend.
To all practical effect there are five camps:
- Amazon
- Apple
- B&N
- Adobe
- DRM-free anything.
The first four players *all* seek to lock-in customers to *their* walled gardens. The only difference between them is that Amazon is *today* more successful than all the others combined. Adobe is no more an angel than Amazon is a devil.
(shrug)
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