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Originally Posted by Barcey
Ideally you should be able to read ebooks using a rendering engine that meets your preferences (setting and flexibility) and purchase ebooks from whatever store provides the best price and service. These are personal preferences and no one company can meet everyones preferences. With competition there should be new rendering engines and books stores and you should be able to easily switch to what you view as better. Without DRM and with a true open standard this would be possible. Adobe at least allowed for companies to develop separate rendering engines and tried to allow for you to be able to buy DRM ebooks from multiple vendors. It was a big play for them to collect $ on every ebooks old, every rendering engine and every store. Both suck but there is a distinction.
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The market has decided. The war is over. Amazon have won (at least in English-language markets). ePub is indeed a "standard", but punters don't care about standards - they care about being able to buy the widest range of books, at good prices, from a company with great customer service. Amazon dominate the market because they are good at what they do. If that's a reason to "punish" them, it's a funny world we live in.