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Originally Posted by JSWolf
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-p...rprise-winner/
Apple is losing the audiobooks and Amazon isn't getting eBooks.
If this is all true, Amazon is going to have to go ePub or risk losing sales left and right as people want the HP eBooks and since they won't work on a Kindle, that will be one big strike for Amazon.
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Agreed.
Going drm free and using ePub if true is a move I think we should applaud Rowling for. She's potentially cutting out a lot of kindle owners by doing so, but the end result could be of much more benefit to those same readers if amazon add ePub support, I may even consider a kindle as a replacement for my Hanlin then
However, Isn't there a chance they'll just sell in multiple formats? ePub for most but an option of mobi for kindle owners? It'd be a shame if that were the case though. On the one hand it'd be a shame for kindle owners to miss out, but on the other it'd be great for a standard to be heavily pushed and hopefully force manufacturers into supporting it as an extra format, even if they only support drm free ePub (which is what I hope happens) which in the longer run would then be of benefit to kindle owners.