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Originally Posted by mncowboy
user_none - That sounds reasonable. Very disappointed that Amazon didn't go with EPUB for their format. I think it is a mistake on their part.
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It wouldn't really make any difference either way.
It would be a cold day in hell before Amazon would go with Adobe's ePub DRM, and pay Adobe a royalty on every book they sold. Mainstream publishers won't go with DRM-free publication, so the only alternative is to either:
1. Wrap something very like ePub in a Mobi wrapper (which is what they've done)
or:
2. Add yet another DRM mechanism to ePub, which again would only be readable on Amazon's device.