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Originally Posted by Stingo
Damn. The extent that Amazon will go to to avoid allowing E-pub.
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In this case, it's not so much a case of avoidance of a particular format for no good reason as it is a case of what is simpler and more economical for Amazon.
Amazon already has the book files on their servers in the .azw format. Why pay a fee to Adobe for its DRMed epub file if Amazon
already has a copy of its own?
The ability to save library book annotations is unique to Amazon, isn't it? I doubt that the format has anything to do with this feature since plenty of epub readers allow annotations, so the big difference seems to be that the books are coming from Amazon's server rather than Overdrive's. Again, it makes more sense to Amazon to just use the files that it already has in its possession.