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Originally Posted by wallcraft
It is the case that FictionWise can't get Kindle secure AZW files to sell, but the Kindle is perfectly capable of reading secure MOBI files. Amazon has disabled this option, and this is entirely a marketing decision by Amazon. I base this claim on the fact that, so far as it is possible to tell without access to the source code, the "Kindle" e-book software appears to be exactly the same as MobiPocket's Java Reader. My guess is that it would take a single line change to the Kindle's Java reader to allow the reading of secure MOBI files, with perhaps a few more lines of code to make the needed PID available to the Kindle's owner (the PID was available on early Kindles, but I think it is now obscured - easy to put back though).
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Don't forget that using igorsk's tool, being, er,
vigorously discussed in
this thread, one can buy any MobiPocket DRM book and read it on a Kindle, perfectly legally. The tool allows you to add the Kindle as one of the devices that the book is encoded for.