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Originally Posted by boswd
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 |
Not everyone reads or cares about the NYT list. I believe there are polls here that indicate among ereader users, it may be less than among dtb readers.
Nora Roberts and Steven King are not the be all and end all of the book buying universe. And even for those for whom they are, there are so many other future possibilities and IFs and conditions that have to align for them to ever perceive even an inconvenience, I cannot fathom why you constantly push out the emphatic, one sided warnings.
Most people will read those authors on whatever ereader they choose, and will never have a hint of any problem.
But no matter how many times we point out all the misstatements and qualifications and errors in your claims, and no matter how many times we state plainly the realities and show how to state them truthfully and accurately, you keep making the broad misstatements the exact same way in every thread where it comes up.
p.s. Why aren't you talking up the Kobo as the only decent choice? Their bookstore is ONE place that seems to warrant comparison shopping, and buying from them would eliminate the, by your estimation, 60% library lockout that you'd 'suffer' if you had the 'misfortune' to get 'locked in' to a nook.....
All those words are in quotes because my point is, again, it's really not a problem in practice for the vast majority of users of any devices, and the POSSIBILITY of a problem is there for all of them.