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Originally Posted by leequick1
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.
lee
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I'm not sure who the 'usual' Amazon customer is, and I must admit I didn't (and still don't) fully understand the nuances of all of the different formats used by the various ereaders on the market. However, when I decided that I wanted a Kindle, I started doing research and found that other products had adopted ePub, which would offered the ability (i) to check out books from the Library and (ii) obtain books sources other than from where I bought my digital reader.
To me, both of those things are important. I typically buy most of my books (and I buy a lot of them), but I would like the ability to check books out from the library as well. Additionally, I don't want to be forced to purchase from only one source. Yet one other concern I have about multiple formats is that any books purchased on one reader would not necessarily be readable on a future digital reader unless I bought the exact same brand in the future.
I disagree with your view that people do not care and/or do not understand what they are buying. These are still relatively new gadgets, but the more mainstream they become (and the more friends people have who also own them), the more knowledgeable people will become about them. I'm hoping that this fact, and much increased competition in the digital reader space, will encourage them to revisit the single format scheme. Just my 2 cents.