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Originally Posted by KindleMan
I'm thinking that if I was Amazon, I'd wait a bit to see if other the other electronic reader manufacturers jump on the ePub bandwagon. If so, then provide their books in ePub at their usual lower prices and capture all of the ePub market. Also, that would allow Adobe's DE to be used with the Kindle. Can't think of a reason why Amazon wouldn't do that! It will be interesting.
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The main reason I can see for Amazon not doing it would be the usual reason for corporate stupidity: ego.
The question for Amazon is "Will the rest of the industry jump on the ePub bandwagon?" If it does, they'll probably have to support it. Of course, doing so will require a firmware update (unless they simply decide to release a new Kindle with updated firmware, and anyone who wants the update has to get a new device...)
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BTW how's the Zodiac doing? I had both the Zod 1 and Zod 2 and read over 100 books from eReader on them. Mighty good machines!
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I have three Zodiac 2s. A production unit, a spare, and a "parts" device. Good thing, since the production unit developed issues and I switched to the spare.
They are wonderful devices and I treasure mine. I have about 3,500 ebooks spread over two 2GB SD cards in mine. Most (about 3,200) are in Plucker format, converted from HTML, but I have a growing number of Mobipocket files, courtesy of MobileRead, some ereader files, and an assortment of PDF files, Word and RTF files, and plain text files in the mix.
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Dennis