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@fjtorres:
quote:3- expecting amazon.com to provide user support to mobipocket.com customers is akin to expecting an Opel dealer to provide service to a Corvette. The two companies may be parts of the same multinational but do not share personnel, equipment, functions, or mission.
Apparently you misunderstood what you read. I did NOT expect Amazon to support mobipocket. It took me a week to find out WHY Amazon kept interjecting themselves to my emails to mobipocket. THEY are the ones who obligated themselves by doing so. Too bad most of their tech "support" people aren't aware of the relationship between Amazon and mobipocket.
quote: 5- as a rule, kindle carries a superset of mobipocket content. Buying it direct from the kindle would've been a lot easier. Or were you trying to circumvent georestictions or local taxes as well as the mobipocket DRM?
No intent here to do anything other than buy a damned ebook legally. It isn't offered by Amazon/kindle, and I found it on mobipocket.com. Most of my ebook files are .mobi, .prc, and .azw. I thought that the file would work, given the same file extensions. This was my first run-in with DRM, and a quick, nasty education about differing devices/formats.
quote: 2- mobipocket.com content is sold to be used with standalone copies of the mobireader app, each instalation of which generates it own pid. You supply that pid so the content can be encrypted to that reader app. The app is free and prominently featured at mobipocket.com.
Sorry, bud; I run Linux, haven't run Winblows for over five years now. No Mobipocket reader for linux. Runs unstably in WINE. So no go there, either.
My whole beef was that anyone who isn't already well-informed about all this crap can just wander in and pay for a book that they can't use. I'm not in the habit of scouring a website, checking all the fine print before I order something. Perhaps I should start.
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