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Originally Posted by Quoth
No, it's a way of getting copies of non-Amazon books!  Actually, taking foil hat off, it's just a convenience because for years the KDP upload has worked best with epub rather than doc, docx or mobi.
The epub is an open published spec, so not just Sigil & Calibre produce it but many bought tools used by publishers produce epub.
It doesn't at all imply that they will offer epub for download (extra cost of royalty per copy to Adobe, or expensive bulk licence). Epub downloads will not happen unless publishers and Amazon go entirely DRM free.
What non-Kindle customers? |
Epub is an open format. They wouldn't have to pay anyone royalties to use it. Even for DRM they wouldn't have to use Adobe's, Apple doesn't, Bookwalker doesn't and Amazon is certainly capable of rolling their own DRM. I mean they won't bother anyways but it's not because they'd have to pay Adobe.