I don't see any opportunity on the reflowable
ebook side of things but who knows, technology has a habit of breaking rules all the time.
Equally remarkable is the fact that Amazon sells DRM -
restricted ebooks side - by - side with DRM - free ebooks while making no distinction between the two formats.
Switching to portrait view eliminates that problem, since you don't tap to turn pages in that mode, on the
optimized ebook side.
I suggest by starting on the Kindle /
ebook side of the Amazon website.
We compare the same comic, magazine, newspaper, and
eBook side by side.
When we started, Amazon was 90 % of our income too, on
the ebook side.
If you're interested in more information from
the eBook side of things, you might also want to check out «Let's Get Digital: How To Self - Publish, And Why You Should: Updated Second Edition (Let's Get Publishing Book 1)» by David Gaughran.
(Note I've got lots of horses myself on
the ebook side and none of my own on the print side, so no pro-trade agenda on my part pointing this out.)
I really thought traveling was where people who are ambivalent about ebooks, or who read both ebooks and print, would come down on
the ebooks side, for exactly the reasons you state.
Since the self - publishing paradigm addresses mostly just
the ebook side, we'll stick with that.
As a result,
the eBook side of Amazon is more weighted down with titles.
On
the eBook side, EPUB has been touted as this universal format, like you mentioned, but Barnes and Noble puts their proprietary spin on it.
Both companies declined to comment on
the eBook side of the debate, so there's obviously some more work to do there.
But the situation is dramatically different on
the ebook side of the house.