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Originally Posted by DaltonST
Amazon supports .mobi because if they did not, they would be sued by everyone who bought .mobi books for use by MobiPocket at http://www.mobipocket.com/ many years ago, including me. I read them on my PalmOS devices, plus my Win98/Me PCs. |
Amazon could have killed off Mobi and that would have been the end of it. Suing Amazon over that would have been a waste of time. Sony was able to shoehorn ePub into a PRS-500 and I think Amazon could have shoehorned AZW3 into the older KIndles given that they have better harware specs then did the 500.
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Amazon bought MobiPocket, and also the .mobi format, so they would have little competition when they got into selling ebooks. Amazon did everything it could get away with to kill off .mobi in favor of its own formats.
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Amazon bought Mobipocket so they could have an eBook format that they fully owned. It had nothing to do with killing off competition.
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The Federal Trade Commission would have viewed their actions as anti-competitive and on the road towards monopolistic if they had dropped support for .mobi.
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Amazon has killed off Mobipocket (the version sold by Mobipocket.com). The FCC doesn't care because it's an old obsolete format and it's not really used much.