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Old 01-10-2011, 11:09 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by screwballl View Post
For now, Amazon sells mostly AZW filetype ebooks which can only be used on the Kindle. As time goes on it may help to watch the news on this as they may decide to open it to other formats which would help expand their sales.

For now, look for ebook sites and file types in epub format.
The vast majority of azw files are actually mobi files that have been renamed. If they don't have DRM they can be read on lots of non-Kindle devices, or converted to epub for use on others. The only other type of file Amazon sells is Topaz, these can be recognised from the lack of a page count in the product details (it will just give a file size). They can be converted, but are a pain to do so and the results will have even more spelling mistakes than normal mobi files because the only readable text you can extract is a very rough OCR used for indexing purposes.
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