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Originally Posted by stonetools
The average consumer doesn't give a damn about format or DRM. Believe that.
On the other hand, they will care if they can't read their Harry Potter on their Kindles come October 31.
Since the folks running Pottermore care about the average consumer and not at all about techie format zealots, we can be sure that the Potter books will be available in various formats on the appointed day.
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We don't know what the Pottermore folks care about. Maybe they want to give a certain reading experience that's not possible with a Kindle (at the moment). The only format that would be used to give a reflowable reading experience similar to the paper books is ePub and maybe while they've thought about Mobipocket, maybe they've decided against it as it doesn't give the experience they are looking for.
We just don't know. Maybe Amazon is going to have to go ePub or not have any HP eBooks natively available for the Kindle. Maybe Amazon is going ePub. Maybe there will be Mobipocket eBooks. Who knows? This is all speculation at this point from snippets written by other people guessing as well.