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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Bad. In one corner, we have a major web retailer and its ebook format (Amazon/Mobipocket). In the other corner, we have a major bookstore chain and its ebook format. The ancient Greeks would understand this situation. When the gods fight a war, it's mortal man who suffers.
On the plus side, there is the chance they will weaken each other and Epub will come out ahead.
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it will be very interesting to see how this plays out. over here mobipocket is pretty much dead already ; all the new publishers are going directly to epub, all the new devices are coming with epub support, and even the existing devices (cybook) are adding epub.
i really have to wonder what is amazon's reasoning behind sticking to mobipocket (or some modified form of it). even though they bought the company it seems a bit backwards-thinking of them.