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Originally Posted by BWinmill
For example: it is unlikely that KF8 will ever operate on first and second generation Kindle. Amazon doesn't care, because they want to sell new products. However, when interoperability enters the picture you do have to care and stable standards over long periods of time is the easiest way to do it.
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Amazon have said, however, that their book creation tools will be able to create both a KF8 book and a Mobipocket book (which will work on older devices) from the same source; they are thus providing interoperability at the toolset level, rather than the output file level. I would imagine that the overwhelming majority of Amazon books will continue to be in Mobi format - KF8 provides few benefits for novels.