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Old 10-27-2011, 08:03 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Between Kobo, B&N, Sony and others, are you really sure Kindle is most in the US when you combine the total number of ePub capable readers vs the total number of Kindles? I would doubt it. But world wide, ePub is #1.
Well, I certainly have no statistics to back up my beliefs, and as you can see, I do prefer epub, but of all my friends and neighbors that have e-readers, they uniformly have Kindles. E-readers are referred to as "Kindles" like Kleenex stands for tissue. They have no idea about epub vs mobi, and now that libraries can lend out books to Kindles, they have no reason to (before they had some murky sense that for some reason kindles couldnt borrow books from libraries).

Of course, it could just be that everyone around me is an anomaly. But suffice to say I do believe (based on nothing but my experiences) that Kindles dominate in the U.S. market.
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