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Originally Posted by JSWolf
More eBooks via Overdrive are ePub. More ePub eBooks are read world wide.
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I don't pretend to have actual numbers about any of this but I think the last thing I read was that 60% of USA ebook sales are from Amazon. I have read that epub is used more in other countries than it is here but I wonder if it's enough to be a majority.
Also, it's kind of difficult to care that a format is open when it's DRM'd. That shuts the openness down, it seems to me.
I'm not against epub and I'm not trying to say mobi is in any way better. The little I know about formats suggests just the opposite. But all this fear of a "closed system" when the books are so easy to jailbreak even if the devices aren't, seems a little off to me. I wonder how many of the Kindle users in here buy books from Amazon and use Calibre to back them up just in case Amazon goes kerplunk. Probably a lot. It's hard to believe Amazon doesn't know that and nothing they've done makes it seem like they care much.
Barry