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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Now that you are in the correct forum,
My question shall change.
You keep saying ONLY AMAZON can produce a book using the kfx format.
That is probably true. But, does this mean that the author cannot sell it in another format on another site?
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He can.
But Kindle users are disincentivized to buy a "more open format" instead (loophole set aside), because on their readers it lacks features out of the box. Better readability and convenience - vs. caring about important properties of eBooks down the road, is not a fair fight.
What I take offense with is not that there is no way around this, but that it is positioned in a way for people in general to not get what was "once promised" as the norm for eBooks.
And if Amazon never saw ebooks that way - then lets promote that fact.
You could argue, that this is used as a means for integrating customers tighter into the Kindles own ecosystem (exclusive-featuresTM), or that it is the beginning of planned obsolescence (it probably is not - Amazon would take better consumer retention over "pay again for the next version" at this point) -- but all I need to make my argument is to point at the stuff that was lost within the last year.
Look at whats still possible, but not probable - is not something the public should be fobbed of with.
Why do we always have to talk about the publisher and author that can still sell a version of his book to readers on a small lesser known online store (loopholes aside), which then will look worse on Kindles than if the reader would have bought it through Amazon - but that way archiveability or any other user rights necessary for using it with Calibre arent lost?
No - thats not an alternative - and even Amazon acknowledges as much. The ONLY way we can still pronounce this as "workable" is, with them holding open a loophole for the "informed class" of users. And the loophole is out of our hands and will be regulated in the future, by Amazon - as they see fit.
Thats what preps this whole mess up ("At the moment we can still use Calibre..."). Nothing else.