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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And mobi is a proprietary format owned by Amazon. Proprietary because the specifications of the mobi format have never been officially published, documented or released (unlike epub). All information known about the format itself has been gleaned from different bits and pieces of different reverse-engineering efforts.
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Amazon can optimize thier platform (Kindle harware & firmware) to process compressed MOBI files using thier DRM scheme faster then other formats. Assuming the whole thing isn't just smoke and mirrors and that is what they are doing.