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Originally Posted by emellaich
I am reasonably comfortable with Amazon and buy many books from them. However, to set the record straight for some of the newer folks, in the ebook world: amazon has already abandoned one ebook format . They used to be in the market with a format before Mobi. Then they closed down their ebook store, and took a hiatus for a while.
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Well, sort of.
Amazon used to sell books in the MS .lit format, readable on the MS reader software. At some point, they stopped selling e-books in this format. But all of the books remained as readable as they ever were. Amazon had nothing to do with their DRM.
But this was never Amazon's format, and I'm not sure they the fact that they stopped carrying these books was any different from them not carrying any books.
At least, that's my understanding.
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Anyone who bought one of these original Amazon ebooks, would have to rebuy it in Kindle format today.
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Why? The book is just as readable as it ever was.