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Old 07-26-2023, 08:14 PM   #26
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How was it ahead and what problems did they solve?

I'm not "pissed", but the system was obsolete at launch (by about 10 years for international text), as it only supported Western Latin/Roman text (with some Scandinavian & Greek characters).
You _really_ don't know what you are talking about.

Amazon won the ebook market because they solved two pain points which were limiting ebook adoption: Delivery and Creation. They sent the ebooks you bought to your Kindle, and they also automatically converted your documents and sent them to your Kindle.

That is old hat now, but it was earth shattering at the time. Mobile internet was expensive and clunky, and Wifi only worked _sometimes_. Amazon's promise that the ebooks will arrive without having to bother with technical details was a huuuuuge improvement over the status quo.
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