Thread: What would make Kobo surpass Kindle?
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Old 11-28-2017, 01:52 AM   #168
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
I agree with you in general, but since ePub is an open source format, I'm not so worried about it becoming obsolete. Any reader worth its salt will continue to support the format.
Your implication, intended or unintended, is that the Kindle is not a reader worth its salt since it does not support epub now so cannot "continue" to support it in some hypothetical future.

Open source formats are very desirable. However, any advantage in this case is purely theoretical and perhaps also ideological. At least so far as obsolescence and continued support is concerned:

1. DRM takes away any advantage of epub being open source.
2. The reverse engineering of Amazon formats and the availability of non-Amazon software to read them mitigate the disadvantages of them not being open source.
3. DRM removal options are at least at the moment available for all of the relevant formats.

Also, as at least one other poster said, the odds of Amazon still being around in 20 or 30 years time is much better than B&N or Rakuten.
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