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Originally Posted by odamizu
P.S. I'm particularly interested KindleUnpack results for books bought in the last year.
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I'm guessing the year the ebook was first available would be more relevant than when they were purchased. The more new (or recently released as e-) books purchased, the better the chances of getting an KF8/AZW3 formatted kindlebook will be.
If you buy primarily backlist books that have been released as ebooks for quite some time, you're likely to get a lot more mobi-only kindlebooks. If they're out and selling in mobi, there's very little incentive for a publisher to go back and update those ebooks to the newer KF8 format (though they occasionally may do so).
If you buy primarily new releases (or at least new-release ebooks) you're probably going to get mostly KF8/AZW3 formatted kindlebooks.
It also depends on how one
retrieves their kindlebooks for unpacking. If someone manually downloads all their kindlebook via the "Download & transfer via USB" feature of their Amazon account for use on a device that doesn't support KF8, they'll NEVER unpack as a KF8/EPUB.
All this is just to say that I don't think knowing these percentages you're after is going to be all that useful/relevant.
For what it's worth ... I almost never run into a mobi-only Kindlebook any more. So I'd be about at about a 98+ percent of getting an epub after unpacking my kindle book purchases this year. But then I primarily buy new-release books.