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Originally Posted by nekokami
Even if a Kindle customer buys Mobipocket content from Amazon, Amazon still gets a cut because they own Mobipocket. I still think this is an odd decision for Amazon to have made. The only rationale that makes sense to me that I've heard so far is that they want people to have the experience of books formatted specifically for the Kindle (in terms of graphics), rather than buying a Mobi book somewhere with teeny unreadable graphics and getting mad at the device.
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I think they still could have sold "Kindle Edition" books specifically formatted for the Kindle and not locked out their existing customers.
Other then greed the only logical explanations I've been able to come up with are:
1) Although they purchased Mobipocket they didn't like the contracts they've signed with business partners and how the DRM technology is handled and shared. They're happy to let Mobipocket run and collect the money but they didn't want to share that DRM scheme with the Kindle.
2) A scenario where they know or suspect that the DRM for Mobipocket has been broken and they couldn't fix it and maintain backwards compatibility. Under that scenario they might not have trusted the existing DRM scheme with the future business volume they plan on executing with the Kindle. Continuing to run the Mobipocket site as it was is no additional risk then it had been yesterday. This would be naive in my opinion because any DRM can be broken.
Pure and utter speculation. Only Amazon knows for sure and I haven't heard them talking (about this).