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Originally Posted by notimp
Because what you introduced a page back - was the notion of .kfx primarily being a "distribution format". Some sort of dumb container where it doesnt matter if people are still allowed to create or understand it - because format development, or culture creation takes part entirely separate from it. You even went so far as to say "why does it matter, that publishers arent able to understand a distribution format?".
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I didn't say that it doesn't matter. I said something in that line about the consumer side, but with the addendum, that consumers are prohibited to legally access the format anyway, because of drm.
Having a closed format is complicated even for amazon. They can do it, as long as it is easy to produce good looking eBooks for it. It will backlash, if it doesn't and making complicated books for amazons ecosystem gets impossible or they get critic from consumers, that books aren't looking good.
But the old format is closed in a way too. You can't really make a azw3 book by hand, before it was reverse engineered. You still normally use kindlegen to convert another format to amazons format.
All I wanted to say was, that it does not prohibit the making of eBooks. Maybe it even makes it more easy for some, if the conversion from "bad" sources produces good looking books. It would make a bigger impact, if they had a open but very incompatible format to write eBooks. Because then, many eBooks would be written in that format and only really usefull for amazon books.
Your point about feature parity I don't understand. Do you mean the "few" books amazon publishes themselves? I would think using their own format has more to do with gaining the edge above books produced with other formats. As in: Better buy your book on amazon, because here it has whispersync, this feature and that feature, above books you could by at Kobo or B&N. Not to say: Buy a book published by amazon, because only then you will have feature x,y,z.