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Microsoft Plans To Add an Ebook Store To Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com)
Microsoft may have plans to give Windows 10 users the ability to purchase ebooks directly from the Windows Store. According to a report on MSPowerUser, Windows 10 Creators Update will feature a new book store interface that will support the purchase and viewing of books in the Microsoft Edge browser. The report claims that this feature will be coming to both Windows 10 Mobile and other Windows 10 variants on PCs and tablets. It's worth mentioning that Microsoft made EPUB support a feature of Microsoft Edge as part of its Windows 10 Creators Update Insider test builds last year.
This. I bought a lot of ebooks in Microsoft Reader format back in the day, to read on my Pocket PC/Windows Mobile devices. Of course one day Microsoft decided it was bored with Microsoft Reader, and dropped it. So when that generation of devices became obsolete, your whole library became useless (unless you made the effort to decrypt the ebooks and convert them to another format, which was doable, but obviously a PITA). So now I'm going to buy ebooks that I'm guessing can only be accessed on a device with Microsoft's store, and signed in to the same Microsoft account? Not making that mistake again.