Thread: fictionwise and mobipocket format
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Old 03-17-2010, 02:57 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by geertm View Post
Amazon has killed the Mobipocket format by not allowing other DRM formats on ereaders that support Mobipocket DRM.
All the new ereaders support ePub DRM instead of Mobipocket DRM, even older ereaders like the Cybook gen3 now support ePub.
So business-wise I think that moving from Mobipocket DRM to ePub DRM is a good decision by Fictionwise.
I think it's a bad decision, as you will remove all Kindle readers from your client-base... The best decision would be to support all formats, that way all readers has access to all books.
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