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Originally Posted by igorsk
It's not "two bytes", it's actually a string (e.g. AMAZON_11). Mobipocket needs to know the address of DRM server to authenticate the book, and it has a mapping of vendor IDs to server name (stores.xml file). In this case it doesn't know the vendor AMAZON_11, so it cannot authenticate it.
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While technically it's true that azw and prc are the same format, they are still 2 different drm schemes since you cannot read azw with Mobi reader and similarly with drm prc on Kindle.
So in a sense Amazon is competing against itself, and I just cannot imagine this happening for more than a short while. I am quite convinced that only the large number of drm prc files out there and the sudden introduction of the Kindle made this possible, but I still do not see this as sustainable.