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Originally Posted by dgatwood
The exclusivity I was talking about has nothing to do with KDP Select. I was talking about the fact that it is impossible to ship the exact same Kindle book via Amazon's store and any third-party store because of a combination of Amazon's policy that submissions have to be produced with kindlegen and their policy that you can't use kindlegen to produce content for sale outside of Amazon's store.
In effect, the combination of those two policies means that the Kindle version of your book, as sold on Amazon, must be an Amazon exclusive, which in a monopoly or near monopoly situation is legally problematic at best.
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I think you are splitting hairs a bit too finely here.
Baen sell through their own site and Amazon and Kobo, selling mobi, epub, kf8 and kepub, as long as someone can read the book with the same words I don't think they care if the file is exactly the same or not.
Classifying a book sold in one format as exclusive when it is available elsewhere in equivalent formats is going to politician levels of stretching the facts.