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Originally Posted by elborak
It can be. In this case, it's merely an accurate description of your essentially opaque writing style.
After more verbiage than any other poster on this thread, I still don't really know what point you're trying to make.
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I think there is absolutely nothing not to understand about his point: Amazon controls a proprietary format which is genuinely problematic in this specific case because:
1. The format is undocumented and cannot be created by end-users (unlike Apple which provides their own editing software, albeit only for Mac)
2. Amazon is the largest ebook vendor in the western (or free, as some Americans like to put it) world.
3. There are potential problems arising from the combination of 1 and 2, that is, if the largest vendor of ebooks centralizes ebook production and begins to control a culturally supercharged product such as the book (this is an entirely different situation than the one several Gutenberg vs scribes polemics suggested).
This discussion may not be new but it is certainly far from concluded, which makes me really wonder where all the hate comes from (it may be that notimp is correct in his assumption that it is an effect of some users’ compartmentalizing mentality).