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Old 10-27-2011, 08:16 PM   #26
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by seajewel View Post
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.
All my family who read on electronic devices read ePub. Mom on a Sony, me on a Sony, mother-in-law on a Sony and wife on an iPad 1 all read ePub. I've even sold a Sony to someone my wife works with. So around here it is ePub, not Kindle.
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