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Originally Posted by akwant
I’m disappointed at the fact that Amazon still ignores ePub.
Ah, they don’t want me to buy books form them, I guess.
Oh, well.
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I'm all for a universal golden standard, but quite frankly it's not here yet. And it won't be until the DRM issue is resolved, anyway. Man... I'm so tired of hearing about lack of ePub. That's like everytime a new iPod comes out and people start complaining about its lack of support of Ogg Vorbis.
There's no pressing interest for Amazon to implement ePub. None. 99.99% of people on the planet probably don't even know what it is. They control the books, and books they are not selling and are provided by the public domain can EASILY be provided using the mobi format.
Now if they open the bookstore to other devices, then it becomes pressing. And they are primarily in the book business, not the gadget business... them opening up to more ebook formats impedes their book selling.
None of this is to say that it wouldn't be nice if they would. But the market just doesn't really mandate it yet. The great eBook experiment continues.