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Originally Posted by CopperTrail
Its really difficult reading this thread being a Kindle owner who lives in the Cleveland area 
I knew going into it that it supported only the Kindle proprietary eBook format, so I can't complain or gripe.
Hopefully they'll re-think things and add the e-Pub format, but I highly doubt it. Why would they, they want Kindle owners to buy all their eBooks from them!
I may have to start combing these forums and choose another eReader; I can always sell the Kindle. |
For library audiobooks (mostly served by OverDrive Media), it took the Zune and iPod about two years before they started supporting these free audiobooks, despite selling audiobooks themselves at the Zune Marketplace and iTunes Store.
I doubt this was done unilaterally in OverDrive Media's app, converting to Zune or iPod supported format (protected WMA or AAC)--I'm not even sure that would be possible, cracking the manufacturers' DRM. I believe the iPod and Zune firmware must have been changed to support OverDrive Media audiobooks. Probably Microsoft and Apple succumbed because they needed to keep people from abandoning them (like you're threatening to do with the Kindle).
Keep the faith. Maybe Amazon will capitulate fairly soon, based on Microsoft's and Apple's experiences with library audiobooks.