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Originally Posted by bphil00
I'm quickly learning how nothing is clear and straightforward in the ebook world, especially when Amazon enters the picture.
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I've earned a lot of money through Amazon over the past seven-plus years, so I jump to its defense. Amazon created the e-book business, for all practical purposes (oh, there were outfits like Fatbrain that sold the odd copy, but nothing anyone could make a living on; and there was Sony, but independents couldn't publish to it). When an improved platform came along--years later--Amazon could have done an Apple and simply abandoned its installed base of e-readers and e-books, but it didn't. It made the new, epub-like format backwards compatible, so we have the privilege of uploading a book that--yes!--will actually work on the original gawky Kindle keyboard contraption introduced in the fall of 2007.
Sony took a different path. It went from proprietary format to epub and then went out of business. All hail, Jeff Bezos!