Peter Brantley suggests most of the bloggers are focused on features and not on the business model.

Here are some thoughts of Joe Esposito, Portable CEO and formerly an executive at Simon & Schuster and at Random House, a former President of Merriam-Webster, and CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica; and Bill Janssen, a senior researcher at Xerox PARC for many years in the fields of digital texts, ebooks, and the user experience.

While both are skeptics of the system, neither is saying anything that is not already floating in the blogosphere. Regardless, they bring authority to the ideas of focusing on the business model.
Amazon has a winning formula - with the exception of PDF formats. This is a mistake because many book publishers already provide e-books in this format. Additionally, go to Amazon's Digital Text Platform and the guides are in PDF. This inconsistency should be called out and corrected by Amazon.


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