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How very unpatriotic of you. Mobipocket is still a French company, eve if it belongs to Amazon by now. Without Mobipocket the Kindle infrastructure of today wouldn't exist.
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You said it, amazon owns mobi.
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So shouldn't you rather stay true to the French origin of the Kindle success instead of succumbing to the cultural ePub-invasion imposed upon your country by the US-dominated consortium?
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Amarican or not, it's an open format
I used mobi, now using ePub. and, the whole amazon debate put aside, i prefer ePub. More functionality, editable easily. Though ePub could be better if adobe didn't crippled it (drm and poor css support).
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They are *not* going to give up Whispernet. And Whispernet is incompatible with ADEPT, in case you hadn't given it much thought.
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Why would adept pose problem to Whispernet ? If so, just ditch the DRM.
Though the main point would be to have one, and only one, format. No mater if it's ePub or mobi. And get rid of the drm.
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More importantly, if Amazon ever sees the need to "support ePub" they are *not* going to pull a Sony and roll over and play dead for Adobe; they'll do what B&N and Apple did; use their own DRM on *their* ebookstore.
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That was a very stupid move there. And the B&N drm is adobe made
If they use their own drm, it will still be : can't read, won't buy. They is no point for amazon in going ePub, unless it's drm-free, or adept.
I don't buy music from iTunes because it's aac. (Amazon mp3 rules!)
I don't buy books from amazon because it's azw. Even if they where to get rid of drm and make conversion easy, i'll still go he the shop proposing me ePub.
Thinking about it, it's all about : Would the extra sales for kindles / e-books if amazon used ePub compensate the sales lost by kindle users being able buy their books elsewhere. Most likely.
I mean, how many kindle user would go shop somewhere else, unless for books not available at amazon. Their prizes are OK, and they have the convenience that wishpernet brings. Or do they think their stuff is such crap their customer will go elsewhere at the first given occasion ?
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When the day arrives that ePub makes *economic* and *business* sense to support (if ever) Amazon will (probably) think about it. But until then they are *not* going to do their enemies any favors.
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It do make economic and business sense. At least if they mean to go outside US/UK.
Right now, they are making sony, bookeen and the fnac a favour.
Unless they do something rather soon, people in France will have books in ePub, they will not want to lose if amazon finally decide to sell French books. And thus, they will sell neither kindle, nor books.