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Because I sense the progression swiftly going back to the usual small personal attack, pretend you chose to ignore "unimportant" facts, then don't do anything about it cycle - here are a few suggestions what we could talk about in here instead..

- The actual issue.
- The longevity of the proposed "workaround".
- The motivations behind the push for this walled garden.
- The missing reaction from the blogosphere.
- The missing statement from Amazon.
- The press release that went out instead (More booky with Bookerly!).
- The first reaction within this community ("What a fun challenge!").
- The self image of developers that help you to hack your way to a better screensaver but dont care about closed ebook formats.
- The missing reaction form authors and major publishing houses.
- Why Amazon hasn't been sued for contract infringement over the rollout.
- What we got in exchange for giving away the publics right to produce books.
- Why Amazon isnt letting you know anymore which ebook format you buy.
- Why Amazon, who some of you though was in the eReader business, has just decoupled eBook features from eReader product cycles - and coupled them with format releases instead.
- What it means, that Amazon now has an exclusive as far as selling the most current eBook format on Kindles goes.
- What it means that nothing in the new format is an open standard, much less html based.
- What it means that authors cant define paragraph spacing, image transparency, text alignment, ...
... or even when and where their final product is produced. Or when it becomes available.
- What that means for publishing as a whole (having agency, being topical, being nimble, being independent, ..)
- What that means for quality control.
- What this means for archival purposes.
- What it means from the perspective of a user that doesnt know file formats.
- What it means for the distribution and usage of calibre.
- What it means for society and pockets of culture.
- What it means from a free speech point of view (centralisation, loosing the right to final edit, not knowing when the release will hit...)
- What it means for third party stores that arent allowed to sell the current and best eBook format for Kindles
- What it means for us if we loose control over almost every cultural aspect a paper book still had
- What it means if this transition went through without any mainstream media recognition.
- If buying "premium" eBooks (better readability) is something we want.
- If Amazons layout prerequisites for their store are sufficient to take away our ability to edit an eBook after we have bought it
- What it means, that Amazon encapsulates public domain books as kfx files also.
- What it means, when Amazon chooses to neglect to educate users on the production workflow (not "better tools", but "no tools whatsoever")...
... or product features (/properties).
- What it means that they don't want to have people on their self publishing forums talking about the file format (at all)
- What this means for culture development as a whole (culture comes from societies interaction with art - over time)
- What this means from an anti competitive perspective
- What this means for eBook format development (as a whole)
- What this means for the institutional bodies that created the open standards we still depend on
- What Amazon will do with azw3 in the future..
- What...

And many, many related issues that are probably just as pressing and just as interesting to debate.

Take your pick - or just do as you did on every argument I have made in here before - and try to tell the rest of this community that none of it matters - because, you still can get a book formatted in a legacy format - if you put in the effort. And Amazon doesnt change its mind, policy and never stops supporting it.

Actually its the "there is nothing to talk about" mindset thats most disturbing. You had all this time to think about the kfx issue and its implications - and ended up at "there is nothing to talk about"...