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Originally Posted by Katy Did
True enough, probably on both counts. My point really was just that saying Amazon is generous enough not to partition the PW's internal space is misleading; no, they don't partition that space, they simply allocate all of it to Kindle books. If you want to sideload you have to work around their restrictions. B & N at least do allocate 500MB specifically for sideloaded books, and you don't even need to do anything potentially illegal to make use of it.
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It's not misleading at all -- they give you the space to do whatever you want with it. And ePub may be a multi-platform standard, IN TERMS OF USAGE, but it's not really an ePub if it's a kepub, or if it has DRM; and mobi7/8 is just as freely available. In fact, anywhere you can get non-DRM books basically boils down to "anywhere other than the baked in store" and they ALL (i think) provide .mobi/.azw3 format as a download option.
And just for the record, mobi was there first, ePub is the newcomer. It existed long before Kindle, and mobi is NOT a "Kindle Book", it is a MOBI book, which Kindles can read (as can several other readers, see
HERE).
Kindle books are books that come from the Kindle Store, just like Nook books are books that come from the Barnes & Noble store. mobi and epub are not either type, they are books that are free as a bird.
Seriously, why do so many people pointlessly hate on MOBI, and pretend that "Industry Standards" actually mean anything? It is a totally different issue altogether.