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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Remember, at the time that Amazon developed its format, epub didn't exist yet. Sony was still using LRF, and you could still buy books in MS's .lit format. Sony converted from LRF to epub about a year (or two?) after the kindle came out, IIRC.
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ePub was introduced a month or so before Kindle shipped but wasn't usable until august 2008. And it had "teething pains" for another year-plus, at which point the Kindle 2 was going like gangbusters. It was too late for Amazon to retool even if they wanted and they had no reason to want to.
Sony, on the other hand, announced their support early in 2008 but offered no details on how they'd manage the transition for 6 months, effectively Osbourne-ing their reader line until they finally announced in July that they would offer updated firmware for the 505 in August:
http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleV...83259&rel_no=1
Their ebookstore transition took months after that so just as Kindle was launching and establishing Whispernet and their ebookstore, Sony was tied up rebooting their ereader business. And then they introduced the PRS-700 in october.
They lost a whole year+.