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Originally Posted by notimp
I am sorry - but there is something deeply wrong with this view. This is mobileread, first and foremost - a community of people invested in the development of digital reading. Also some of the current developments in this field are introduced by a (distribution and online infrastructure) company named Amazon.
Of course I am addressing this in an Amazon centric forum, where else would I talk about stuff like this?
Im addressing Amazon customers, because I am one myself - and am deeply concerned with the direction this company has chosen to take - in the last few months.
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The opinions of Cinisajoy are not necessarily those of other people.
I am with you on this -- Cinisajoy, I really don't know where you are coming from???
That being said, I am still really confused with the way the thread seems to regularly go on irrelevant tangents better suited to the General Discussions forum, rather than things of interest to the local hacker community (the Kindle Developers Corner).
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Actually, maybe that is what Cinisajoy is referring to!
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- Amazon has established a new fileformat conceptualized so that they would be the only entity able to create it, then started to distribute it en mass.
Eight months in - this community was partly able to reverse a mechanism so we can create somewhat functional files within this format - but we still have no understanding how it works, we still cant create our own tools to work with it, we still cant convert it, Amazon still will not accept those files, the format cant be distributed legally.. And Amazon has switched its automated distribution to this very format (.kfx) exclusively.
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Sure we can distribute it, just not for sale. End-users can use it if they want.
And Amazon has NOT switched exclusively to KFX -- I don't know where you got that delusion from.
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- To sweeten the deal, Blogs and customers were sold on new "features" only Amazon could provide - like hyphenation and ligatures - this was done to create the notion of a "premium" format - the public won't be able to create or modify - but it would be able to purchase.
The problem? Hyphenation is not a premium feature - it is a necessity. Especially in languages other than english.
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Necessity for you.
I am happy with AZW3, mostly because I have never cared about hyphenation.
Then again, I read in English (proudly monolingual entitled American here
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Please do not mistake your foreignness for a universal necessity.