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Originally Posted by khalleron
For those of you questioning why most ebook readers went to epub instead of mobi - it's because Amazon, the owner of mobi, would not allow any dedicated readers to support both DRM-mobi and any other DRM format.
They can support any number of DRM formats if they use epub - they can only support DRM-mobi if they choose to support mobi.
If you were an e-reader manufacturer, what would you do?
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The history goes like this.. Sony had support for BBeB (LRF & LRX) and wanted to add Mobipocket to their Reader. But because Sony had support for DRMed BBeB, Mobipocket said they had to either remove it or no deal and it was no deal. Then Sony worked with Adobe and added in ADE. After that, ADE blossomed for it was then used in other readers as well. So really, we have Mobipocket to thank for ePub becoming the #1 eBook format.