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Old 06-30-2011, 02:15 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
O'Reilly is one of the top tech publishers in, so far as I know, the world.

Baen has top-tier authors in SF and Fantasy, two of the most popular genres.

They are neither self-published nor obscure. What that ARE is genre-specific.

If you keep falsely dismissing all the options as obscure or self-published, when they are not, then I will continue to correct you.

If you just told the truth, that you are really referring to only the 3 other general DRM bookstores, then you will get no argument.

There are 3 more ADE/epub general book stores than there Kindle DRM book stores. There is no argument on that. If thos are the kind of books someone wants, AND they think they may want to switch readers, AND they don't want to strip DRM, then there are perfectly valid concerns to be addressed, BOTH on the epub reader side AND the Kindle side.

To repeatedly warn the Kindle as dangerously exclusive, and to totally dismiss or mis-state the exact same issues on the other side is simply bad. Bad.

Bad, bad, bad,

ApK

ps. Bad.

I don't think I'm falsey dismissing. But Im sorry the majority of the book reading population isn't banging down the doors to read some tech book. Yes I sure the authors you haven' mentioned have their own following in their own world. But tell your mom or sister "Oh who cares about ePub you can get your DRM Free Mobi books and get yourself a good heaping of O'Reily tech books or some space sci fi ."

Let's forget about a small specific market and lets think overall majority big picture here. What are the majority of people reading and want to read?

Here is the list of the NYTimes Bestsellers on Google's ebook store used ePub format how many of these titles are available in Mobi DRM Free books for purchase?



http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_co...ore_home&hl=en
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