Well yes, cheap books is a good point for Amazon.
But that does not fix the issue to begin with. What do I do with my collection of epubs should I ditch my epub readers and take a PW ?
I am not comfortable with Caliber and should I have format issues with .mobi or .azw, I have no idea how to mess with the css myself as I'm used to on my epubs.
This issue would be fixed if the PW had epub support. If amazon's environment and prices are so great, they should not fear customers leaving and if customers keep buying amazon books as they do now, there is no reason for prices to change. What's more is customers of other epub selling companies would flock to amazon and their epub supporting reader and end up buying amazon books which are as you say, cheaper.
Which in turn would force those other epub selling companies to lower prices (and maybe ditch DRM's wich are a lose/lose for everyone) which in turn would be better for EVERY ebook customer out there no matter where they get their books.
Even piracy would probably decrease as quality retail ebooks would be available easily and at a fair price in an OPEN environment.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It IS in your interests to buy from Amazon if their books are cheaper, surely? When you buy an ePub book from Kobo, or whatever other ADE bookstore you may shop at, a significant portion of your money is going into Adobe's bank account.
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