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Originally Posted by cybmole
OK but given that calibre cloud is free (with ads). or just over £1 for ad-free pro version you ain't going to get rich competing!
But if you can write such an app AND get it accepted by amazon ( unlike c cloud) then I'll buy a copy
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One reason for option 2 and the accompanying apps is to avoid competing directly with calibre cloud. I freely admit that calibre cloud does something useful that has nothing to do with CC and don't see any particular reason to offer up the same thing. Instead we want to offer something to people who prefer to use CC: the ability to fetch books from calibre libraries anywhere and add them to CC. Cloud storage like Dropbox, Copy, etc are such places, but there are others. Some people have internet-facing NAS devices, as evidenced by the popularity of things like calibre-to-opds and COPS, and these would work fine with option 2 by fetching the folder containing the books.
Being able to import a bare epub might be worth doing as part of the CC side of option 2. Doing so would let us import epubs fetched from non-calibre content servers such as the ones named above. It could be that enough people "polish" the metadata to make it at least somewhat correct, but I hesitate because there is a good chance we will get blamed if it isn't. Still thinking about this.
As for Amazon, who knows? I am sure that the base option 2 (import from folder) will be accepted because CC's scan-for-new-books does nearly the same thing today. As for the accompanying app, I suspect that Amazon doesn't include cloud apps that don't support Amazon Cloud Drive. We will see.