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Dear Publisher,
To better serve authors, publishers and customers, Amazon is consolidating eBook sales & publishing to the Kindle Platform. Mobipocket will not accept new eBook submissions for sale on Mobipocket.com or its affiliated retailers after Dec 2, 2011 and will stop all sales and remove your existing eBooks after Jan 2, 2012.
If you wish to make your books available to Kindle customers, please use our Kindle Direct Publishing system (http://kdp.amazon.com). If you have already published your titles to the Kindle Store through Kindle Direct Publishing, they are already available to Kindle customers.
If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact us via email at mobipublishers@amazon.com
Thank You
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So Amazon makes its final move to eventually close the oldest large worldwide eBook-shop (that was loooong before you ePub kittens came along ...
) and say good-bye to MOBI.
After Microsoft's decision not to support LIT anymore this is the second time within one year that a once popular format (and its infrastructure) will vanish into oblivion, and again one infested with DRM.
Makes you wonder what the situation will be like in, say, 2021 ... for both DRM and eBook formats.