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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
It was bound to happen Amazon insistence on mobi was as it wanted to get as many people as possible into its eco system. In the next few months at least by the end of the year its ereader unit growth would stabilize so then it would look to target users of other readers.
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Well hang on a second, lets look at this from a few different angles. As mentioned before, epub only came out a month or two before the Kindle, so to develop a solid and reliable device Amazon could not have adopted the epub format in that time.
Secondly, Amazon own mobi and can develop it into a format best suited to its business model and distribution. No business wishes to throw away their investment and adopt a method/practice which any competitor can latch onto.
People complaining about the Kindle not opening epubs is like Android owners complaining about not being able to run Apple itunes apps.