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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Mobi isn't obsolete. It is a perfectly good format for ebooks.
It seems that the only way to paint Amazon as a rebellious closed ecosystem is to continually narrow down the criterea every step of the way. One's preferences do not define the openness (or lack of) of an ecosystem.
There exists a way to read DRMed ebooks on the kindle that aren't purchased from Amazon. Therefore it is not a closed ecosystem. Amazon aren't responsible for the relative failure of publishers and bookstores to make use of that alternative.
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What it means, I would imagine, is that Amazon is hard to compete with. So the fears that Amazon, when it "gets control," would up their prices exponentially, are unfounded. Should that happen, it would open up the market for others to use a different DRM method for mobi that
would work on Kindles.
And I have also noticed that more and more conditions have had to be added in an attempt to
make Amazon a "closed system." Once you've watered it down that much, it's pretty much meaningless.