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Amazon Kindle/EPUB Rumour…true?

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Rumours are abound right now that Amazon is on the verge of providing support for EPUB ebooks on their Kindle eReader. What’s getting peoples tongues wagging is a post from an eReader blog* stating that Amazon is telling publishers to start providing them with titles in the EPUB format. As vague as the details are [...]

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Why Amazon Needs to Support the EPUB eBook Format

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In a recent ZDNET article, Jason Perlow described his hesitations for buying one of the new Amazon Kindle’s, which was due to its lack of EPUB support. Many responses to the article noted that the “average user” doesn’t care about the format of an eBook, only for the buying experience. I’m not going to argue [...]

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Sony announce new PSP Digital Reader – EPUB Support?

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This evening a friend of mine pointed me to the Sony annoucment of the PSP and the new PSP Go over on cnet news. Why did I find this interesting enough to write about? The article also mentioned that the PSP’s will be getting their own “Digital Reader”…!!! The article says, The PSP will also [...]

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Can we hope for an Amazon and ePub union?

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EPUB formatted books as an industry wide standard is what I, and many others want. But can we achieve this without Amazon’s adoption — at least with ePub support on their Kindle eBook reader. It will certainly be a lot easier to have a standard eBook format if Amazon joined the ePub party. I’m reluctant [...]

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