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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
As far as I know, both Windows and Mac OS X can only read HTML and RTF without having to install special programs (Microsoft Reader for LIT on Windows). And there will always be some users not proficient enough to know how to install a program, but wanting to read a book on a Macbook.
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Although I see your point, it's hard to appreciate someone who doesn't know how to:
- Open a browser
- go to a reader's site
- click the ever-present "download to install FREE reader" button.
I even provide links to exactly those readers on my site, to make them easy for a visitor to find. Someone who cannot manage that is probably unlikely to be reading books on a Macbook, eh? I'd question how they even found out e-books exist...
I suppose it does raise the question: How far should booksellers cater to those who are that helpless on a computer? (Of course, people such as those in the U.S. can always buy a Kindle...)
But that raises
another question: How much of that "helplessness" is due to unfamiliarity, for instance, the man from Barcelona with limited English skills who is trying to find his way around an American website? Are multiple formats helping or hindering him?
(BTW: My proclamation in #31 was actually more of a joke, not a completely serious statement. Check the date on it...
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