I guess it comes down to the fact that it's the rest of the consumers out there, who are the ones making the decisions for us in the corporate world. Whatever sells the best is going to be carried the most in a store, and everything else will be slowly whittled down to the bare minimum. When I first started working at B&N I couldn't believe how many paperback books were "stripped" each year. A book being stripped when the cover is torn off, sent back to the publisher, and then "destroyed"/thrown out at the store. And we were a small store.
I didn't realize that Mobi was acquired by Amazon.. then I looked it up to realize that it happened almost two years ago.
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