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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Before I bought my Kindle, I tried out the various "for pc" apps from B&N, Sony, Mobipocket and Amazon. Guess which one won? And not just the app, but the whole shopping experience from price on down the line was better at Amazon.
Someone on another forum mentioned that they have an app on their Kindle Fire to read any epubs they buy. I don't know which app, but I am guessing that moving to a tablet world opens up support for epub at least in this manner. Amz may provide a "reader" app for the tablet specific to epub. If they can find a way to make money on it, Amz will likely do it.
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I read epubs on my Kindle Fire using the Aldiko app, which I had to sideload because Amazon doesn't make it available to Fire owners in its app store. Nevertheless, it works great, and I find myself primarily buying epubs now. I like having a choice of stores to buy from, and I actually prefer reading in Aldiko to reading in the native Kindle app.
I seriously doubt that Amazon will ever provide an epub app, because their chief interest is in selling their own ebooks. Providing epub support would tend to dilute their own sales.