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Originally Posted by wallcraft
MobiPocket (Amazon) requires DRM exclusivity to allow MOBI on a dedicated reading device.
I like the "support everything" approach, but the "do one format well" approach can also work. This is what Sony started out with, and what the Kindle still has. This implies off-line format shifting, which Sony did not do but Calibre supplies.
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The "do one format well" approach is fine if everyone publishes most things in multiple formats (a good idea) so you can pick and choose. But this is unlikely, at least in the near future, so for these devices to become truly universal, the "do many formats" approach is needed.
So, now that BeBook supports Mobi DRM, does that mean they cannot support any other DRM formats (e.g. eReader, LIT, Adobe)? Or is it exclusivity on book titles?
Either way, it's interesting, I wasn't aware that Mobi imposed that kind of limitation.