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Originally Posted by Mattoquai
You might be a Linux user and a 'heavy e-book user', but for people who are not that much into technology and computers, converting issues could be a problem. For a widespread use of e-books you wouldn't want this, right?
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Well, yes and no. I'm still of the opinion that morons shouldn't be permitted to use the Internet. Someone who doesn't know enough to run a simple program to convert a file to an eBook format simply shouldn't be permitted to use a computer.
Putting that idea aside for now, there are already several free utilities out on the market today that will convert files to eBooks. Plucker will take an HTML file and easily convert it. There are several that will take a text file and convert it to Palm DOC. Converting something to HTML or plain text is easily done with the standard word processor of your choice.
The bottom line is that unless the eBook convertion is free, it won't be something that will be around long term. As users gain more knowledge, they will be drawn to the much quicker and (probably) free alternatives for converting eBooks.