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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Your argument falls over because Amazon doesn't need a proprietary format to keep the vast majority of Kindle owners happily buying ebooks only from Amazon.
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And I was fine with that. I really was.
Talk to people who know this account name and what it stood for in the past (in a certain german *hrm* forum and sadly not with enough engagement and hours put into this community here), I championed Amazon up until the point where along to the "habitual bond" (ease of use, convenience, ...) came the structural shift towards the fully proprietary format (developed as such, with obfuscation out of the box, containing 14 files in a folder instead of one .kf8, exclusive features, no authoring tools released...) that started being autodelivered onto peoples Kindles, without Amazon even giving out as much as a press release as to what had changed, and without any way to "easily opt out from it" for the normal user.
The boundary of where exactly the red line is can be shifted around as one needs it. This was mine.
Maintaining the loophole that still provides "older formats" is not in our hands, and having eBook production distributed is not in the interest of publishers anymore (at least partly).
Thats too much of a change to just let it fly by.