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Originally Posted by TadW
The question is will those Mobi e-books for the Kindle also work on other Mobipocket-capable devices? It's not difficult to imagine that Amazon added some kind of flag that would restrict an e-book to a specific device type.
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They don't even have to add a flag. It is already possible to restrict a MOBI e-book to a single PID. The vendor can allow 1, 2 ,3, or 4 PIDs, and can allow them to be changed, by downloading the file again with new PIDs, or not.
If Amazon makes ~80,000 title available in MOBI format, that would be a huge advance in itself. I hope they allow 4 devices per e-book, and allow purchases without a Kindle. Even if they don't, there will still be price pressure on other e-book sellers and many of those MOBI titles will be available from other retailers.