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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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
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But you didn't express an opinion. You made a false claim that "
only Amazon wanted to develop a proprietary format."
Perhaps if you are as unfamiliar with the history of ebook formats as you claim, it would best that you refrain from making such uneducated claims about said history?
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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.
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Not enough people to matter (to Amazon). So why dwell on it? Give them your business or don't (that's a rhetorical 'your', I don't mean to single anyone out, here), but the constant complaining is tiresome. Had Amazon not been successful with ebooks/Kindle would everyone be bashing retailers for not selling ebooks that can be read on their niche Amazon readers?
The only reason people don't bash epub retailers for making it difficult to step over their garden wall is because they have failed to implement an unbreakable DRM. But that is not for lack of trying. And it's definitely not for altruistic reasons.