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Originally Posted by K-Thom
Anyone's around who really has to ask why people tend to buy a Kindle?!
Buy an eBook from Amazon and read it on any Kindle device or any Kindle app (okay, we'll have to see if they goof with KF8) and don't think twice about version numbers or DRM schemes.
Sorry, I never bet any money on ePub in the first place, and I won't before any given ePub will be readable on ALL ePub devices around. Newer versions won't make it easier for ePub customers.
But I just had to rant, so don't mind.  |
The timing on your rant is really quite funny. Kindle just announced they're changing formats... again. And the new format probably won't be compatible on last-gen Kindles.
...Sorry, what was it you were saying about compatibility?
Epubs ARE readable on any device that reads Epub - which is all of them, except Kindle.
Epub3 is just Epub2 with extra stuff. The extra stuff won't show up on a reader that doesn't support Epub3, but the main content should work fine. Epub3 devices will also read Epub2. There is no compatibility issue. At least nothing a minor software update can't fix.
Which is better than can be said for the new KF8 Kindle format, from the looks of things.
Whether various DRM schemes are or will cause incompatibility is another issue, and completely unrelated to format - it's as true for the Kindle as it is for Epub devices. DRM is basically the business of causing compatibility issues where there shouldn't be compatibility issues.