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Originally Posted by stonetools
My understanding-which may be wrong-is that Amazon shifted to Mobi format when it launched the Kindle in 2007 . The Kindle and Kindle store was well established when epub came along in 2008. Since then, Amazon continued in the mobi format while everyone else took up the epub format.
People have been calling for Amazon to switch formats, but unfortunately those folks have never offered a good BUSINESS reason ( rather than technical or aesthetic reasons) why Amazon should switch. Not surprisingly, it hasn't switched.
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A good business reason? Serve up ePub
in addition to MOBI (cost and effort would be minimal) to widen your pool of customers.
Frankly, the original article sounds like the exact same kind of whining we constantly hear from Wal-Mart foes. Like the Wal-Mart foes, everything they cite as evil about Amazon is standard practice for pretty much every business of its type and size...