Thread: Sony Reader Lives on with Rowling!
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Old 06-27-2011, 09:00 AM   #162
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Originally Posted by EowynCarter View Post
ePub is the most wildly used. It makes more sense to got the way than going full mobi.

Oh, question, how would amazon switching to epub hurt amazon customers ?
If my K3 no longer read the books I now have, I would be annoyed. I expect many Amazon customers would join me on that.

In practical terms, I have yet to find an ebook I want that is not available at Amazon but is available elsewhere in ePub format. One of the reasons I chose the Kindle was that I already bought most of my books from Amazon, so it was convenient. But, of course, having bought the K3 I also have books from places like Gutenberg in mobi format, so I wouldn't want to have to change them.

As things are, we made our choices and bought the readers that best suited us. I don't wish for one format to thrash another in the format wars any more than I wish for the demise of readers I haven't chosen. A common format would be lovely, but getting there would probably be painful.
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