Thread: Sorry Kindle, You're Not Invited
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Old 04-09-2011, 07:45 PM   #369
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
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?
They forked the DRM, not the format. Kindle can read non-DRM MOBI, and any device with MOBI support can read non-DRM AZW so long as you change the file extension.

Having said that, there's no real reason to use MOBI these days. The official reader hasn't been updated since April 2008 - and they don't support either iOS or Android.

Modern MOBI is Kindle, and Amazon has chosen not to support libraries.
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