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Does Amazon need Harry Potter to continue to thrive? Nope.
Does Amazon want to get in on the Harry Potter train? Well hell yes.
Techies have been importuning Amazon to move to ePub for a while now, for various technical and aesthetic reasons. What they have not done is to give a BUSINESS reason why Amazon should expend the substantial money needed to convert to ePub. Well, now there is a bonafide business reason for the move.
Since Amazon is also adding a line of tablets this fall, it makes business sense for Amazon to make the move now. Does ePub display comics and magazines better than Mobi? I dunno, but I suspect so. If that's true, then it makes the move to ePub this fall that more economically sensible.
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