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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
In my humble opinion, there's really no decision for the ebook creator/designer/author/whatever to make on that subject. So there's really no need to publish stats. Amazon will simply stop delivering the original mobi7 format when it reaches that point of diminishing returns. With that in mind, I'll feel obligated to make sure that any ebook I design will gracefully degrade to the mobi7 format until such time as a user cannot BUY it for a device that needs that format.
In short: if Amazon is still selling my ebook to customers in the mobi7 format, it's my responsibility to see that they've purchased quality, and not just a "let the chips fall where they may" vestigial appendage of the KF8 conversion process.
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Not to mention, but:
which book's "usage stats" would they provide? A bestseller by Dan Brown, or a romance novel? I imagine that the stats vary wildly. Amazon would have to take an aggregate figure, over some time period, and put out the stats.
To me, it also does not matter; if even a mere two people are going to buy a client's book in K7, they deserve as much attention as the others who are buying it in K8. I've mentioned here on MR before that I am a little disturbed at a fairly cavalier dismissal (this is not directed at Tacitus) of the K7 users and the formatting needed for graceful degradation for those devices. I'm pretty constantly surprised that the vast majority of my clients (now numbering over 2,000, which amazes me) have K2 devices or original or 2nd-Gen Nooks. So...if we take that as anything to go by...
Hitch