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Originally Posted by graycyn
Well, if it's DRM free, there's nothing at all going to stop Amazon's customers from buying it, converting it and reading it.
Admittedly, some percentage will not wish to take the extra step of converting with Calibre. Some are going to be offended just by having to sideload it. I never get that, since sooner or later, you need to hook a cord to a device to charge it. I don't get why it is so onerous to some folks to use the same cord to hook it to a computer and transfer a file or two once in a while.
Honestly though, I don't know why they don't just offer it in both formats. But who knows, maybe by October, Kindle will be supporting ePub. Things can change fast in our world.
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A significant percentage, probably a majority, of Kindle owners got them because they work without a PC. It's not that it's onerous to plug in a cable; they just don't see why a portable reading device should require a mandatory accessory PC. So don't expect them to go out of their way to "fool around" with format shifting and sideloading. They've done without official Potter ebooks til now, they can do without them moving forward.
And yes, a lot of things can happen *long* before now and october.
Like Rowling, a Kindle user herself and openly fond of the wireless feature, clarifying that every reader means Kindle, too. And that she understands that 15 million-plus Kindle owners out there is not a market to be ignored or slighted.