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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I disagree. The device is going to be created and released, I think Mobipocket would rather than a percentage of the sales (since they own mobi) than none of the book sales that are made to users of these devices.
Yes, the prefer you buy a kindle and 100% kindle books, but secondly they would prefer you are buying mobi books rather than LIT or eReader.
BOb
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I must respectfully disagree with you here Bob.
Amazon is out to win for the Amazon Kindle. The fact you can get books in Mobipocket format to work on the Kindle isn't exactly something they are trumpeting from every street corner.
We know about it, and maybe some Kindle owners who read this forum or are part of Kindle groups know about it but it's all about branding for Amazon.
"Get an Amazon Kindle! Shop at the Amazon Kindle store! (Oh, uh, yeah, uh, you can get Mobipocket books for the Kindle, uh, just don't tell anyone we told you that, k?
) Get an Amazon Kindle! Shop at the Amazon Kindle store! Long live the Kindle!"
I could be wrong, but that seems to be the thrust of their advertising and PR to me.
Like the car ads of old where they have some deep voiced announcer race through the gas mileage and all the disclaimers at the end of the commercial. They talked so fast, you could barely make out what they were saying.