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Originally Posted by jackie_w
In Kindle world is it not true that the devices, the firmware and the book formats are all totally controlled by Amazon. Therefore why would I not also conclude that any current problematic user reading experiences are problems entirely of Amazon's own making?
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You absolutely should. But you also should not assume that because you and some others and even I regard the lack of any particular feature as a problem, that the vast majority of readers do also.
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
If we also include the phone/tablet market, the number of people using anything other than Kindle4Android or Kindle4IOS to read MOBI/KF8 books must be miniscule and therefore, by your own reasoning, too niche for Amazon to care about. Once again, Amazon proprietary apps, so my conclusion is the same as above.
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On the contrary, Amazon want their ebooks on their apps to render very similarly to their ebooks on any other one of their devices. The word niche is in fact quite misleading in this context, though not entirely inappropriate. The point is that Amazon is unlikely to consider adding a feature unless a significant number care about it.
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Reading these forums, it seems the definition of "niche" is "features offered by other brands which Kindles do not currently have". I could swear that demand for screens bigger than 6" was being dismissed as "niche" this time last year. Am I also to believe that adding a few more options for margin-widths and/or line-spacing would cause a meltdown on the CS phones, whereas the recent adding of a few more font-sizes won't?
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Each feature adds bloat and possible confusion, and many readers are not in the least technical. My theory is that Amazon wants to stick to the KISS principle as far as possible. This explains its evident reluctance to add any new feature, and its delay in doing so.
You are correct about the 7 inch reader. It was clear that there was a demand for this size screen. Amazon, of course, could not just roll-out a firmware upgrade to increase the screen size of its existing readers. New products do take some time, and clearly Amazon was playing catch-up on this particular development.