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Originally Posted by HarryT
One might look at it the other way around and say that, given the Kindle's domination of the market, Ms Rowling would be crazy not to sell Mobi versions of the books. She needs Amazon more than amazon need her, to my mind.
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The woman's a billionaire; she doesn't "need" Amazon. She's already decided she doesn't need access to their sales charts; it's reasonable to assume that the majority of Kindle owners who will buy books away from Amazon at all, will be willing to convert them.
She avoided selling ebooks for years because she thought they were the wrong kind of book "experience;" I expect she's going with ePub because she can put custom fonts & CSS layout details in it. (Which, of course, none of her formatting department is going to tell her won't work the same on all ereaders.)
The concept that the books will be "readable on all devices" may well mean "because you can throw them into Calibre and get a mobi version."
(However, I expect Amazon to be frantically working to get access to her ebooks, whether that's by opening the Kindle to ePub or allowing it as one of the filetypes that can be sent to be converted & delivered by Whispernet.)