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Originally Posted by kennyc
It's my belief that eventually epub will be the standard and Amazon will adopt it when forced to but lost sales. With Sony and B&N going epub and numerous small sellers offering it I think we are moving towards consensus.
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I think you are wrong. I also think that the usual customer for the kindle wouldn't know an "epub" if it wore a placard and came up and introduced itself. In reality why should they, they are interested in getting an ebook easily anytime they want and reading it. Kindle and now the Nook do that just as easy as you please.
I know what it is and don't care if my Nook or my Bookeen plays nicely with it or plays badly with it. I am interested in only buying the ebooks of my choice and reading them over and over again if I please. I rather believe the average Kindle buyer does also, simply because that is the way it is marketed, look ma no computer needed, just appears like magic.
Thing is while on this site, I have discovered another world of people who want to put their own stuff on their readers and play with it once it is there. You do not know how strange I find this, not bad strange but strange. All these years I have treated a reader as simply a way to read published books on an electronic device instead of paper. All other stuff belonged on a computer.
If you all want to make sure readers do what you want in the future you have to put your money where the product is. Then tell the other contender why you purchased the opposition.
As for the kindle changing anytime soon, don't hold your breath, you are not the targeted market, they don't need you. They have aunt Sue and Bob's Mother and all those people who watch tv and don't really understand computers and don't want to. They have all of Opra's fans. That is a lot of people.
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