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Originally Posted by Daveoc64
There's a huge difference between those products though.
The Kindle Keyboard (3) is by far the most successful product Amazon has ever sold (not just Kindles).
The Kindle DX is the least popular Kindle product they've sold.
From the point of view of Amazon and the publishers, supporting the Kindle Keyboard should be a no brainer.
They'll instantly get a HUGE market for the new format, and that's the important thing - not whether or not people "upgrade".
Saying to the vast majority of Kindle owners:
"This book will work on your device, but it wont look very good" is not a great sale tactic.
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I agree it would be a tremendous upgrade. Even if it didn't include SVG or embedded audio, or fixed page layout. Just the improved CSS capabilities would be great. Especially if books in one's existing library were upgraded to the new format at no charge.
Again, this is where kindlegen's archiving of source files comes into play, since they can just run that same source through the new kindlegen automatically and the same book will now have improved layout (if it was ePub source).