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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I wasn't talking about DRM'd books. Mobi format is both a DRM and a non-DRM format.
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Quite right, sorry, I read more in than you wrote.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Amazon has made it quite clear that they do not support DRM from MobiPocket. Like every other eBook reader on the planet they only support one DRM format.
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Yes, that's what they said, but ....
Then we find out that .AZW format is apparently just mobi with a different extension, which suggests that if a DRMed mobi file could be registered to a Kindle's PID (assuming it has one) and its extension changed to .AZW, the poor Kindle might not
know it wasn't an "official" Amazon e-book.
Amazon owns MobiPocket, so it's not all that great a leap to wonder if they aren't
really using the same format (as they apparently are) and the same DRM, regardless of what they
say on the matter -- you know how Marketing guys can be. The befuddling thing to me is why they'd want to even
appear to burn that particular bridge (let alone really do so) in the first place.
