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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But why support a format that is designed for small screens when you have a larger screen?
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Well, you've got me there. I'm sure Amazon wanted an existing format (less trouble), and no other formats satisfied them. Maybe others might have worked better, such as MS Reader, LRF, or even PDF, but licensing them from MS, Adobe or Sony would have been too expensive/too much hassle.
I can only guess Mobi was the most convenient ready-made format that they could obtain and use quickly, plain and simple.