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Originally Posted by HarryT
I was thinking more of commercial eBooks, Zelda, rather than "DIY" ones. Yes, I know that Mobi books, etc, can be converted to HTML, but is the typical "man in the street" really going to want to have to go through all the hassle of doing so, do you think? People want a book reader where they can just go to an online store, download a book, and read it, not have to be a "computer whizz" and do all sorts of format conversion.
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given how much format conversion and de-drming already goes on (by choice or by necessity), i suspect that there are probably a significant number of ebook readers who either don't mind it that much or consider it's still a necessary evil. it's not actually that complicated, and there are quite a lot of people on this board who don't consider themselves "computer whizzes" but still convert ebooks as a matter of course.