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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid I don't agree with you. The eBooks will sell very well, I'm sure - they'll probably be the best ever selling eBooks, but in the overall scheme of things they are, as you say, only 7 novels (plus a few other odds and ends). I can't see Amazon (or anyone else) changing their business practices simply to accommodate her.
I may of course be entirely wrong. Time will tell!
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I agree with Harry. I mean, Amazon may well be working to bring epub to the Kindle, but there's a reason why they haven't supported it thus far and I'm pretty sure that reason wasn't because "it's too hard".
I've always felt that Amazon likes not supporting epub because it differentiates their device from the others. Yes, you can buy mobi books elsewhere, and yes, you can buy epubs and convert them to mobi, but I'd hazard a guess that the majority of Amazon users don't do that because they see it as a bother.
Indeed, I would suspect that the Amazon eReaders
as a group tend to prefer the "direct to device" delivery method more than any other eReader group. This is based on circumstantial anecdata of the 3-4 Kindle owners I know in Real Life versus the 3-4 Nook owners I know in Real Life and I could be very wrong. (Obviously, any eReaders on Mobile Reads are going to be more tech-savvy than a random sampling of Real Life folks.)
The HP books are important books and will make a lot of money, but the comments that Amazon must be "scrambling" to support epub, I just don't see it. I always felt with the convoluted Overdrive announcement, that if they were going to support epub, that would have been the ideal time to do it. They didn't then, I'm not so sure that they will now.
Still, if they do, that will be awesome for everyone. Yay for more choices.
