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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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Actually Mobi is obsolete. It is based on HTML 3.2 from the 90's, no CSS and difficult to code in this day and age since most people never learned it. The only saving grace is that KindleGen accepts newer coding and translates it to the old 3.2 format. There are lots of things it cannot do but it is fine for simple books. I used to read Palm eBooks and they had no formatting at all beyond a paragraph but we were happy to get them.
Dale