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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Needing to generate multiple versions of the ebook costs money. I think at the moment it's more the ebook retailers than the publishers that are perpetuating the multiple ebook formats.
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Granted. But what would convince Amazon that it was in their best interest to adopt ePub? Even if you could convince them to, the incompatible DRM they would inevitably apply would still keep the Sony, Nook and other device owners from purchasing ebooks from them. They'd gain nothing. Even if the publishers drew a line in the sand and
forced Amazon to sell ePubs, the different DRM would still prevent non-Kindle owners from using/buying their ePubs.
My point is that DRM, not format is the hurdle here. An epub-only ebook world wouldn't be any less divided than the current ebook world is now... not with four different DRM schemes (and multiple epub standards) still hampering interoperability.
Just my two-cents.
