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Originally Posted by deltop
Botched in what way? You think it won't be a success and sell well due to this? I doubt it since lack of epub support won't make one iota of difference when it comes to the vast majority of potential buyers. They'll be getting their content from Amazon and I'd hazard a a guess and say both Amazon and most buyers will be perfectly happy with this arrangement.
Don't get me wrong I'm far from happy with Amazon dominating the ebook market and I'd love to see every device out there support epub (all my ebooks are now in this format) but from a business perspective lack of epub support is just an none issue when it comes to the kindle range. In fact you could even argue that it would be against Amazon's best interests as the owners of mobipocket to support epub.
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Exactly. I don't mind it at all on my K1. I'm a casual reader/user and just get all my books either from Amazon and Feedbooks. I only get ebooks of stuff I only plan to read once (and will buy a hardback of anything I read and want to keep).
So I personally couldn't care one iota about formats not supported, DRM issues (would rather them not be there, but since I just read once it doesn't really affect me) etc. In the off chance that there's something I want to read not in mobi format, it's easy enough to convert in Calibre and other programs. But I haven't had a need yet.
I'm perfectly happy with my Kindle 1 as I bought it over something else for two reasons--convenience of the Whispernet and selection of the Amazon store.