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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Amazon's Kindle/Mobipocket format pre-dates ePub.
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A good point, and one which I had forgotten.
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Originally Posted by Diapdealer
Actually, I think you just don't understand why they continue holding on to their format. Why they developed a unique and proprietary format in the first place is fairly self-explanatory. It's the same reason that Microsoft and Sony and others developed their own unique proprietary ebook formats.
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Also a good point.
I probably could have stated it more eloquently, but it's really just the same frustration I had with Minidisc (Sony's stupidity), DVD-R/+R, and then HD-DVD/Blu-Ray... I understand that everybody is trying to get a slice of the pie, but it seems like they're all trying to get their own, very specific slice. It seems to me that the affected industry would probably benefit more from unification, seeing as there would be no confusion in the marketplace (which actually keeps some consumers from entering it at all, waiting for the eventual unification to occur).
It's less about which format is better, and more that I just freakin' wish everybody would pick one so we wouldn't have to worry about what books are going to work where, and conversion, and all that other idiocy.
