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Originally Posted by NullNix
Well, there's another reason: they don't want to change their existing viewing apps much if at all. They wrote a new one in an entirely different language for AZW3: if they were writing a new one for KFX anyway... this does say terrible things about their software engineering, that they prefer to rewrite *everything* rather than add a few features, but it's not necessarily *entirely* malicious.
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Introducing a new format just to hyphenate or to introduce kerning and drop caps is simply crazy! Azw3 already includes all information needed and other e-readers already offer these features with ePub.
Even if their code is rubbish, they still need to change it to manage the kfx.