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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I think the real reason Amazon developed their own proprietary formats was to prevent others from selling books that could be viewed on kindle readers. This is overall a sound business decision, but selling epubs would not affect this very much IMO.
Helen
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Pardon the snippage.
I really think format control is more of a factor than locking out the competition. If all they wanted to do was make it impossible for the Kindle to read books from other sellers, all they needed to do was limit it to DRM-infected books and it would be done.
The big advantage of format control is the ability to introduce the features they want when they want them. With a standards-based format they have to wait for the committee to approve features.