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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
Seems that it is getting harder and harder for publishers to claim that "no one wants to buy ebooks."
Those churches made of cellulose are starting to quake.
;-)
This really is encouraging news, especially the bit about a deal with SONY. Would really enjoy some better non-fiction than the conjectural truth/self-help stuff there that clogs the Connect catalogue.
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I'm pleased to see it, as a lot of what OUP issues is the sort of thing that benefits from electronic editions, particularly in terms of search capability.
A deal with Sony is also a nice thing, as it broadens the potential market.
Now, if they will look at supporting other formats, like MobiPocket, things will be very nice indeed. Right now, it's only really useful if you have a Kindle. Adding the Sony Reader will help, but there will still be a huge potential market that doesn't have (or want) either of those devices, but might well buy the books if they could get them in a form they could read on what they
do have.
(Since Amazon's AZW format
is Mobipocket format, supporting other devices that have a version of Mobi reader should be trivial.)
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Dennis