Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 04-14-2008, 01:37 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by NatCh View Post
Trouble is, Amazon wants MobiPocket format only, or no MobiPocket format at all.
It is worse than that, because Amazon wants MobiPocket exclusivity but they don't provide user-level support for their software on these devices. If you have a problem with MOBI on the iLiad or the Cybook it is iRex's or Bookeen's responsibility to fix it. All these companies are getting for exclusivity is a license and example code, with perhaps some coding support for implementation and maintenance.

I don't have a problem with license-only deals (such a license could allow binary-only versions of uBook or FBReader to legally support DRMed MOBI for example), but to then require exclusivity seems a bit much. MobiPocket presumably gets a cut of every DRMed MOBI ebook sold, so the exclusivity requirement appears to be an attempt to potentially for go sales today in the hope of driving other formats out of business in the long term.
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