Thread: Are Fair Use Rights coming to an end?
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Old 07-18-2011, 04:13 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
Amazon is the only one that doesn't use a standard format. I doubt that will be an accident, and I doubt they will want to change it. Having their own format means anyone who wants to read Kindle exclusive ebooks has to buy a Kindle, and anyone with a Kindle has to buy their ebooks from Amazon. If they changed their ebooks to epub it would cost them a lot of money in lost sales of both hardware and software.
I can see ways for Amazon to move to supporting the ePub format alongside Mobipocket and Topaz, but I don't think they'll ever support Adobe's DRM, as that would cost them $0.22 per DRMed sale.
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