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Originally Posted by kennyc
That's all but irrelevant to what I said. It still fragments the market instead of combining it. It further prevents kindle users from purchasing books elsewhere or in other formats. Amazon is only doing it because it will continue that fragmentation. (regardless of drm).
I will say though that if DRM did not exist then it is simple to convert from one format to another.
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There is not such fragmentation. What we have is competition. That is healthy in a Country like USA. If there are 100 companies that market or sell ereaders, that's good for the consumer, will bring better prices.
The reason why Amazon uses mobi is because when it was in labs (many years ago) was the most common and important ebook format. ePub and B&N or even Sony were not even there. After Amazon hit the market, then the ePub was also implemented. But you don't do retrofit of your product just to satisfy other companies, especially when you have such a successful library like Amazon.
The fact is that the layout and rendering of a regular novel is exactly the same on epub or mobi. There is no benefit of one other the other. Actually, azw has better and higher compression, so the file is smaller.