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Old 01-19-2015, 03:05 PM   #104
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
When publishers quit selling Mobi books, then they may (eventually) become obsolete. But when publishers as big as O'Reilly's continue to sell Mobi formatted books, you can't call them "obsolete." (At least you can't if words have any real meaning.)
Just because Mobi is sold outside of Amazon does not mean it's not obsolete. Mobi is obsolete. It's so obsolete that given a choice of Mobi or something better, Mobi will always lose out.

Lots of obsolete things are still being sold. That doesn't make them any less obsolete.
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