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Originally Posted by nekokami
But back to the evils of Amazon...
The sad thing is that while we can all decry what Amazon is doing, nobody in the marketplace is willing to really step up to the challenge of eBooks other than Amazon.
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My feeling is, maybe that's not so sad after all. The e-book market has suffered for over a decade, creeping along, and primarily because of the splintering of the market. Amazon comes along, and may be able to import the first real order to the market that it's ever had. At the very least, that should weed out many of the underperformers, and leave us with fewer formats to fight over.
I'm not wishing bad on any specific format, but in this case, I think the e-book market would actually be better off with fewer choices. Fewer choices means more effort on the ones that are left, and a better likelihood of consolidation and order down the road.
So Amazon may be doing us all a big favor.
Of course, ePub converters would accomplish the same thing, allowing you to have a format for every single device there is, as long as there's a converter app for it. So it's not like Amazon is the only way out.