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Originally Posted by Quexos
It makes sense because, with an epub reader I just load epubs to my reader and that is all, I'm done.
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The "elephant in the room" with ePub is DRM. The ePub specifications allows someone to bolt on any DRM mechanism they want to an ePub file, and still claim that it's ePub, which has resulted in at least three different, mutually incompatible, DRM mechanisms being used for ePub books. You can't, for example, buy an ePub book from Apple's bookstore and load it onto your Kobo.
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You want to know what actual nonsense is ?
Kindle NOT adding support for epub ...
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No, it's sound business sense. Say what you want about Amazon, but they don't generally do things that aren't good business. They sell the Kindle essentially at cost price because they rely on making money from content. Kindle owners generally buy books from Amazon, and owning their own DRM system rather than having to pay licence fees to Adobe allows them to generally undercut the prices of bookstores which use Adobe Content Server, for which there are not only extremely high licence fees for the store, but a fixed cost of 22c per sale. Amazon have none of these costs, and hence can sell books more cheaply.