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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But if Amazon had brought ePub onboard and then told these companies that in order to sell your product to work with the DX, you need to make ePub, then there's a chance that would happen. I'd rather have ePub text books then Mobipocket text books for one.
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While adding epub would have been good, I guess one would need to look it from Amazon's perspective - given the choice, I think, Amazon would not allow anything but mobi/azw on Kindle. But the moment you look at the textbook market, or personal document market they must have realized that they cannot do without PDF, so in all probability, quite reluctantly they had to bring in PDF on board.
To take a clue from my personal experience -
For quite some time I did not think PDF was a good format, not reflowable and all that, I used to convert many of my pdf articles into mobi (figures and diagrams not being very essential for me) but the day I sat down to write an academic paper I realised that to provide quotes and cite references I had to quote a page number and reflow became a problem. The non-reflow nature of PDF which used to be the 'problem' became an 'advantage'. So, I had to admit to myself that PDF does have certain characterstics which is keeping it a defacto standard in professional and academic world. I guess, Amazon realized that KDX cannot do without it...while it can easily avoid epub.