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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
In the highly unlikely event that Amazon goes belly-up, we can be fairly certain that someone would take over the ebook side of the business.
Not that I'm not a proponent of making your own backups. I back up all of my data in multiple ways.
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That rests on the assumption that these corporations are always concerned with the loss of user data. History doesn't suggest that to be true. Also, I see no reason why Amazon wouldn't throw Kindle over the boat before anything else - despite its leadership in the ebook arena, the fact remains it isn't the biggest chunk of their sales and they lose a lot of money on Kindles. Kindle and MOBI would go down before Amazon would.
Why would anyone pick up the proprietary format of a (hypothetical) failed company? They won't even pick up other failed DRM's, let alone entire formats. What's in it for them? Nothing. Why would they bother when they can go into EPUB's instead, or make their own proprietary format and make everyone re-buy all their content?