Thread: azw3 vs mobi vs prc/pdb on a Kindle
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Old 02-09-2016, 04:27 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
"Best" is a value judgement and different reviewers assign different rankings based on how they weight the various attributes.

If you place a high weight on market acceptance, number of books available, number of readers supporting, and number of libraries/stores delivering, you'll see that over the 40+ years that ebooks have existed the most successful formats have been MobiPocket (all versions combined) and ePub (2 & 3). TXT deserves recognition for length of support, but little else. After Mobi and ePub, the next most successful format would likely be ApportisDOC/PalmDOC, though it only reigned for relatively short period.
This has nothing to do with most widely used. Back then LIT was the best format technically. It was the per-curser to ePub. Mobi was always a mess.
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