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Originally Posted by Katsunami
While it is not any different, saying that Amazon can abandon a format because Sony did it too, is not a good argument. Or, are you one of the people who says "But they were doing it too!" when you are caught at breaking the speed limit?
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You can accidentally throw an out-of-print pbook in the toilet, rip it, lose it. Don't assume that your current ebooks are beeing able to be used on future devices in 2, 5, 10 years. It is very nice today that you can buy a ebook and have multiple copies of it on different devices. You should be thankful for it - they just as well could make you rebuy all your books (and not just Amazon) if you get a new device.
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But even that does not make them the standard, because everybody else is using something different, and all those other "everybodies" are compatible after stripping the DRM out of the files. The Kindle interoperates with no one, if you don't convert the files first.
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I am sorry, but you contradict yourself there.
Compatible after DRM-removal which in itself is a conversion whether you like it or not makes them
non-interoperatable before. Legally you cannot strip the DRM in every part of the world anyway. What I described also works for 100% legal stuff, not even including grey-areas (removing of DRM is a grey area).
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Amazon's AZW / Mobi format is a standard *beside* EPUB, because Amazon is big enough to maintain it, but as more and more ereader manufacturers, publishers and stores are coming into the market, I think that the epub standard will get bigger and bigger, with more and more devices, stores and publishers to choose from.
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Again, variety does not make epub bigger, it even hurts as there is more things that all need to stay compatible with each other. As you state Amazon is big enough to maintain [the mobi format]. Epub is split up, and it does not look like it is going to get any better.
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They would be, if they own more than 90% of the market
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To be honest, they will never allow that to happen. Amazon will make for 100% sure that they won't get nailed for breaking monopoly-laws.