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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Easy enough. Amazon would be able to refuse to sell ANY books from the big 5. Then all of the big five would *die*. Yes, it would cost Amazon a lot of money in the beginning, but they have a lot of extra sources of revenue.
In the end, all of the big five would need to get on board or be destroyed. As big as they are, they only have one way to make money: book publishing. Amazon has a gazillion ways, from selling clothing and toys, even up to providing cloud services and hired computing.
I don't know. All iBooks I've ever seen had Apple's DRM tough, and I never used Google books.
What's great about epub is that it can be edited by many tools; not only Calibre, the Calibre Editor or Sigil. As far as I know, Amazon even creates its own formats on the basis of an EPUB.
I consider PDF's documents, but not e-books. PDF was created as a fixed-layout printable format. While it can be used as an ebook (obviously), it wasn't its original purpose.
Personally I only consider only file formats to be e-books if they were developed as such; EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, LIT, LRF, that sort of thing.
If you don't, every format could be tagged as being an e-book, even plain TXT-files. In my view, any (text) format not specifically developed to be an e-book, is an electronic document.
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Agreeing with you on the text files. I hate trying to read books in txt, doc or docx. They do not make good books.
I think of pdfs as a hybrid because while they are not real good for novels, they are excellent for books with patterns. If used on a computer, tablet or printed.