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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Last time I checked, it looked like the PIDs were blocked somewhere before the DRM server. I thought the PIDs were being blocked in one of the webserver.
I now have a bigger body of DRMed Mobipocket to test. I'll try them all and report back.
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I just downloaded again all 47 DRMed Mobipocket ebooks I've bought from Fictionwise.I put them though igorsk conversion process, and they all work on my Kindle. I also checked these titles on BooksOnBoard, and according to BOB at least 16 titles come from Mobipocket DRM servers. If I had purchased these titles from BOB or direct from Mobipocket, they would not work on my Kindle. And yet they do. I have a theory about this, and it has little to do with the DRM server.
Back when I wrote the Beginner's Guide, I tried all the ebook stores that I could find through Mobi Desktop. Most treated the Kindle PID exactly the same as Mobipocket; they dropped the asterisk. This is interesting because I had not bought any ebooks; I simply set up an account. There is a good chance that all these sites were running account management software provided by Mobipocket that specifically deleted the asterisk when it is entered as a PID. Note, this happens before an ebook is purchased.
I think Fictionwise got the account management software somewhere else, and this could be why it's different.