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I am now thinking about contacting the publishers, explain the situation to them and ask them to send me the same ebooks I'm about to lose but then in ePub format. Am I not entitled to that? (thanks Studon.nl for the idea)
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Wellll, quite an interesting idea. Hope it works. But since the publisher also had to invest (money/effort/manpower) into the creation of the epub file, isn't he entitled to sell it as some sort of second printing?
What about a reduced price for prc-customers if they buy the epub file? Would that be a considerable compromise?
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There is a major benefit and that is COMPATIBILITY. Since most eink readers will support ADE/ePub, it makes sense to go ePub. (...)
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I was talking about the format itself, not about the support (at the moment). If you consider Amazon's .azw to be a derivative of prc most people reading e-Ink devices right now in terms of numbers use prc, not epub.
Also, most non-e-Ink devices like Smartphones, Organizers, Palm PDAs either support pdf (shudder), pdb (anyone still using it?) or, guess, prc.
Currently a minority of eBook readers around the world uses e-Ink devices displaying epub. Keep that in mind.