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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I didn't realize that, thanks for the correction. I had the impression that after Amazon bought Mobipocket they forced everyone to drop support of the format.
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No. They were licensing mobipocket DRM well into 2011 or so.
What they did, around 2009, was change the Mobipocket licensing terms so that any reader licensed for Mobi DRM could not carry other DRM.
Again, most everybody put their eggs in the Adobe basket.
But some vendors (Bookeen, for one) kept selling Mobipocket DRM versions of their readers side by side with ADEPT versions. And the Hanlin readers (my BeBook, for one) could be hacked to run a combined firmware that supported both.
Early on, you could even extract a mobi key for Kindles and open Mobipocket DRM ebooks from Libraries and other vendors.