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Originally Posted by dickloraine
I still don't understand, how kfx should impact the ability to produce books, if no one but amazon uses it. You never really answered that, other than dismissing my phrasing of it as a distribution format (and mixing up things I said about consumers and things I said about producers). As eschwartz has said a few paragraphs before, books are created in various ways, none involving amazons format before publishing on amazon.
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It's not just that.
It's also the fact that even Amazon's post-submission processing into their storefront, includes both KFX and AZW3 (and even MOBI too, for that matter).
And it is trivially simple to download an AZW3. Assuming you care.
Why is that not good enough? No one has ever said Amazon is the bestest, awesomest, friendlyest, lovable group of people who absolutely want to see fair play and consumer choice yadda yadda yadda... but that is the nature of capitalism, the consumer market, and a sense of business.
Amazon is neither unusual nor extreme, just large, and nothing they do is illegal, so good luck trying to tale legal action against them (hasn't it failed enough yet?
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As consumers trying to look out for our own interests which aren't the same as that of Yet Another Big Company, we take the options we have, and holler if we see anything illegal.
Today, that means buying easily-liberated books from Amazon.
I know I have made this point before, but it bears repeating. If tomorrow, I cannot download AZW3 ebooks, and no one has figured out how to turn a KFX into something I can convert with calibre, then I will say "Amazon has finally made it impossible for me to get a product I can live with", and "$@^% Amazon to the deepest hells", and I will go buy my books elsewhere.
Just because someone doesn't think Amazon is doing anything wrong, does not mean they will rabidly defend anything and everything Amazon does.
I'm just in it for the books.
KFX is a non-issue on the monopolization of ebook authoring on so many levels...
But then, all it needs to be is an effective red herring.
On which note, I still haven't heard a good explanation as to what KFX has to do with monopolies.
But at least no one is trying, anymore, to invoke the suitability of KFX as a typographically friendly ebook format. For which he has my heartfelt thanks.
