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Old 12-06-2012, 12:47 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
Not really. We might like ePub the best, and there is certainly a lot of people who want it to be the standard, but it isn't, at least not in the USA. Amazon far out sales all the other eBook stores combined in the USA to the tune of 2 to 1, in other words mobi7 and/or KF8 format books make up 2/3 of the market in the USA. It is true that mobi7/KF8 can be easily converted to ePub, but it would be nice to have a 3rd party app that can render them natively and kick Amazon in the backside as far as features go.
The problem with Amazon is DRM. A 3rd party app doesn't support DRM for Amazon and no matter how feature rich it is there are problems if the book won't load. Everything that is KF8 begins as an ePub so the publisher can easily make it available outside of Amazon.

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