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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
I'd venture to say it is even more than probable, since they started developing the Kindle in 2004, a year before purchasing mobi. Did epub exist as a format in 2005? If they were primarily interested in proprietary control, rather than the performance of the format, could they not have just used a proprietary DRM with epub? And wouldn't that have been cheaper than buying another company?
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At the time that Amazon bought Mobipocket, Mobi was THE dominant commercial eBook format, and was the format that pretty much everyone who read eBooks was using. Most people were reading on PDAs of course back then; this was before eInk hit the market.