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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Microsoft's .lit, Sony's BBeB(.lrf), Peanut Press's eReader (.pdb)... and the list goes on. I know it's fun to paint Amazon as the only wrench in the path to a one-open-ebook-format-to-rule-them-all nirvana, but It's not entirely accurate. Everybody was in the proprietary format development game in the beginning. At the time epub became the defacto standard of all non-Amazon ebook stores, it would have made no sense for Amazon to retool in order to adopt a format/DRM scheme it clearly didn't need.
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As I've already said, I've never been aware of those happy times when everyone and their brother had their own personal format, because I read paper books then. When I started to read ebooks, everyone but Amazon had already adopted epub as the standard. So I expressed my opinion based on what I knew. Still, even if adopting epub has never made sense for Amazon, their constant tightening of their DRM won't endear them to people either. I know you and the majority of their customers don't care, but some people still do.