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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 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.
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.
Personally, I converted my .mobi books to epubs (via Calibre) years ago.
DaltonST |
You're hysterically funny.
Amazon sold MOBI for quite some time, and they still do in fact.
They bought MOBI in order to have their own format they could control.
I find it hard to see why the FTC would view it as anticompetitive, for a compaany to stop supporting their own books. If anything, immense competition would result.
Why would people who bought MOBI books from a different company be any more likely to complain than the peoplewho bought MOBI books from Amazon?
Pardon me, but do you know ANYTHING about Kindles?