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Those formats arent feature equivalents - to the first new format we arent allowed to understand anymore, probably ever.

Those formats soon enough wont be the the primary file format everyone is using on their Kindles.

Thats enough.

(Also Amazon controls for how long they want the distribution of old formats for owners of current and last generation Kindles to uphold. Direct delivery already isnt an option anymore - so right now we go by "do they still deliver them, when you log in via PC". Something important changed.

Also no one apart from Amazon will be allowed to produce or distribute any of the new formats. Probably ever.)

Dont ask yourself how to belittle this situation, ask yourself how to get out of it.

If you dont - you arent acting responsibly. Your attitude ("Who cares?") really is just an attempt not to look at the status quo too closely. Or think about the medium term future. Or about what this means to the medium of ebooks as a whole.

The Amazon is an Anti-Gutenberg line (destroying social contracts (the ability to create books should be widely distributed), that were upheld since the dark ages) wasnt a throw away.

Any "not caring" about format we arent allowed to understand anymore - because, hey the old ones still work, in some limited fashion, doesnt cut it either.