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Amazon is, as always, trying to maintain as close to absolute control of their market as possible... in that light, their decision is understandable. Anal, maybe... but understandable. I can see them potentially going the MS route, i.e., actively buying up and/or burying the competition one by one, but they're a long way from that now.
(If I were Astak, I'd consider trying to obtain a license for non-DRM'd Mobi. Then buyers have access to a lot of existing Mobi books from other sources, and if their readers sell well, Amazon might eventually be convinced to drop DRM to sell to a larger number of potential e-book customers.)
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