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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
The problem I have with Mobipocket becoming a ubiquitous format is that I highly doubt that it will, in the long run. It has several technical shortcomings that I have detailed in other threads. Amazon itself has created a new ebook format (Topaz) to address some of these shortcomings (notably embedded fonts, and probably also the really weak DRM).
In fact, if I were advising someone on an ebook format to use for archival purposes I would strongly urge against Mobipocket. In the world of digital information, ubiquity at a certain time is no guarantee of future longevity, format shifting is simply too easy.
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Don't forget smallish image sizes as well. I've seen a lot of Mobipocket eBooks with images too small to clearly be seen and some of these eBooks, the images were important enough that the small size ruined to books.
The Mobipocket software has a number of bugs that I feel that Mobipocket will never bother to fix. If they did fix them, they'd have to rewrite all the code for all the differing versions they have. Might not be an easy task.