Thread: Amazon Kindle might be the worst thing that could happen to e-books?
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Old 11-19-2007, 08:57 PM   #86
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A couple of details:

The Kindle supports mobi and txt natively. However, html and doc formats are NOT native and must be converted. Curiously, the Kindle user manual doesn't mention PDF support in any context.

As for criticism of mobi as a technically inferior format, please point out to me a decent open-standards format that is more commonly used for ebooks than mobi is. Like it or not, mobi is the de facto standard at the moment.
Last edited by jharker; 11-19-2007 at 09:17 PM. Reason: Changed "converted via Amazon" to "converted".
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