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Originally Posted by Alisa
I'm aware the .mobi works on the unit. I was referring to book sales on Amazon. I'm thinking about all those folks with mobile devices and Cybooks now that want to buy .mobi content and really thought they would be getting a bunch of new titles when Kindle launched. I really doubt Amazon's making much on the hardware if anything at all. It's all about the content. That's why I'm surprised they're not trying to get as many people into the content stream as possible.
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Actually almost none of the book vendors have exclusive agreements with Amazon so I would expect that once the ice is broken and the source files for Kindle and Mobi are exactly the same we will see a sudden increase in the availability of mobi books but not at the lose leader price. Be patient, there is bound to be fallout and much of it is good for the industry.
Kindle on the other hand will be able to demonstrate increased sales of eBooks and hopefully drive the prices down from the publishers.
Dale