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Old 04-09-2011, 06:33 PM   #368
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Originally Posted by adamselene View Post
What does that have to do with the price of tea in Tibet? There were plenty of other vendors who were selling MobiPocket books, and supplying MobiPocket readers, long before the Kindle came out. It may even be that Amazon's abandonment and isolation from everyone else was part of the incentive for creating ePub in the first place.
I bring it up because the post I was responding to said that Amazon made their MOBI version incompatible with other vendors. But the MOBI format predated those other vendors. In creating the AZW/Topaz format, didn't they fork the format, rather than changing MOBI DRM? Are the other hardware vendors and e-book distributors not free to use the MOBI DRM?
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