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Re:The $99 Kindle by blocke on Thursday August 12, 2010 @10:34PM (#1599879)
I'm still scratching my head over why everyone else seems to support ePub but Amazon can't be bothered to add it to the Kindle.

It's the reason why I went with the nook.

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Re:The $99 Kindle by lkjhgfhjk on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:24PM (#1599966)
Amazon sell kindle, people only buy books for it from Amazon, Amazon make money - Bezos buys new holiday island (eg Australia)

Amazon support open format ebooks, people buy kindle then get books everywhere else - Amazon make no money and Bezos forced to buy Grenada instead.

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Re:The $99 Kindle by CrazedGeek on Friday August 13, 2010 @01:14AM (#1600124)
Amazon does support open formats, just not ePub. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
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Re:The $99 Kindle by smackfu on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:16AM (#1601120)
Well, other people are using ePub plus DRM. Which makes it simple to support ePub without DRM. And it's not like Amazon can "support" ePub and have iBooks work on it due to the DRM.
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