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Originally Posted by Hitch
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Even if they had resolved the issue, that doesn't address the KF7 side. There are, by all accounts, still millions of the things in circulation. Even if it were only a million--who wants to antagonize readers by putting something out that can't be read on KF7?
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Ah, the delights of heritage formats... One of the (many) things I wish Amazon would tell us, is how many active mobi7 customers there are out there.
I recently converted a three-volume physics text-book to epub, KF8, and mobi. For the latter, the words "silk purse" and "sow's ear" seem appropriate. I ended up using media queries and displaying just about all math as gif in the mobi version, and got a version that at best can be described as intelligible, while I could use CSS/HTML+SVG to get a fairly nice result for the other two formats.
To answer your question, Hitch, about who is willing to antagonize the mobi7 readers: Anybody who wishes to publish anything but the plainest text book. It boils down to pleasing all people some of the time etc. Given Amazon's market share, grumpy ancient kindle owners (ancient kindles, that is, not necessarily the owners) is the price you have to pay if you want to publish anything with any kind of interesting layout.