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Originally Posted by Rizla
One must wonder why Amazon insisted on creating an entirely new and encoded file format when it had a perfectly functional format already. It certainly didn't need a new format to introduce new typographical features that would have functioned perfectly well with their old formats. What with the encoding of kfx, one can only come to the conclusion that the new format was introduced to increase control.
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MOBI was perfectly functional before they developed AZW3.
After sufficient poking, we now know what advantages AZW3 brings over MOBI, as well as exactly why a new format was crucial to the upgrade.
It is rather early to be pontificating about the redundancy of KFX, when for all we know it may do more than enable new typography.
And as already mentioned, processing the rendering information ahead of time on Amazon's servers in order to ease the load on the devices themselves, cannot be a
bad thing, although one might debate how much value it actually brings.