[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by notimp

What counterpoints am I missing?

I'm reversing your argument - when I am saying that people in here just want to look at a problem from a "the mountain tops we have conquered" perspective, announcing that everything old (format wise) is still fine, because this allows them to still proclaim some sort of structural integrity, that simply ignores all recent and future developments on the sector, as long as those are still honored. Because they are set in their ways, they dont want to learn anything new, and they dont care about what I describe as "impact on ebook culture".

If you stop caring about recent developments, you probably wont stay relevant for long. The ecosystem is changing. Your positions are not.

Convincing enough?

Not even slightly.

Your argument is predicated on KFX being vital to the reading experience.

Perhaps you are one of those reddit users, who just needs to have the latest everything and doesn't think much about the actual differences.


As for me, I cannot think of any feature that I am missing in AZW3 that I would get from KFX. So far, the meaningful changes appear to be embedded hyphenation done via blind algorithm, plus variable image quality depending on device.

Recent developments for the sake of recent developments are not MY holy grail.


AZW3 is fully feature-complete with EPUB3, and no one has yet suggested that EPUB3 is too old-fashioned to compete with KFX... because the scaremongerers can only successfully scaremonger when they look at KFX in a bubble.


I will continue to buy my highly modern and feature-complete AZW3s, until such time as Amazon stops making it easy for me to do so.
As soon as that happens, if ever, I will drop Amazon like a hot potato and purchase elsewhere.

As for the cultural impact - I wont draw detailed scenarios if I dont have to here. The answer here really is as simple as "do you see value in people still being allowed to create "current feature" books aside from the industry monopoly that now is the only entity that can". I have hinted at impacts from a societal and a historical perspective - but thats it. If you dont see the need to follow this argument - dont. Predictions are hard.

I see lots of value in it. Fortunately, they still can.

In fact, the raw info for KFX is derived wholly from their EPUB intake. People publish books as EPUBs and in order to sell them on Amazon they submit EPUB (or DOCX etc.) for auto-conversion.
Amazon introduces nothing new other than a wrapper format. And currently, another wrapper format.

Also - you arent impartial in this line of discussion, never have been, so dont try to get ownership over what is a convincing argument and what is not. People who read our exchanges will decide that.

Surely you realize that argument cuts both ways.

As for the statements vs reasons play you chose to open up - there are very few "i believe that" statements I make in my posts, the majority of time Im going through facts, examples, and my reasoning behind them. So much so - that you now see it fit to attack me an grounds of repeating myself. (Shortly after I have cultivated the notion of repetition as a rhetorical tool because some indisputable facts seemingly havent sunk in yet, because people chose not to talk about them, when they still were news.)

One man's facts are another man's falsehoods and fallacies.

But in your case I see neither.
All I see are assertions.