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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You have a Kobo Reader, you buy DRM free content from Amazon. Your Kobo won't be able to handle it. You don't use Calibre and you don't convert formats. What do you do? Not a lot as your Kobo will not work with this eBook.
You have a Kindle. Same rules apply about Calibre and conversion. You buy an a DRM free ePub eBook. Again screwed as your Kindle won't have anything to do with it.
So yes, people do buy the wrapper or they cannot use the eBook because the wrapper is then incompatible. You cannot ignore the wrapper and buy just for the content as that just doesn't work for a lot of people.
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YOU care intensely.
Others here, care: mildly...
(Not enough to bet their livelihoods or even their wallet.)
Mainstream buyers? Authors?
Nope.
Not a shred.
People in the real world are comfortable with walled gardens and their limits.
Nobody frets that their android apps don't run on iphone or XBOX games won't run on PlayStations. Life is too short to waste lifespan tilting at windmills.
Amazon's increasing dominance is due more to the retailing competence gap between them and their foes than the walled garden model and harping on that does nothing to bridge the incompetence gap limiting their sales. And that competence gap is what will determine the fate of the American ebook market.