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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.
Anyone who bought one of these original Amazon ebooks, would have to rebuy it in Kindle format today.
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Which is why one should download, strip DRM and backup the ebooks offline. Nothing I've purchased in the last couple of years lives exclusively on the web. If Amazon drops the AZW/MOBI format, I've lost nothing.