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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I disagree. I think the creation of a new format is to keep people locked into Amazon. There's no reason Amazon could not have done the typesetting with the KF8 rendering software. Adobe does the typesetting using ADE and not ePub. So given that Adobe can do it without having to change anything with ePub means there's no reason Amazon could not do it in the KF8 renderer. The reason Amazon went KF8 was to add yet another lock to the door.
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I think that you think Amazon is worried about that high of a level of lock in more than they probably are. What percentage of their customers do you really think buy books and read on something other than a Kindle, Fire or App (and/or care about DRM or its removal)?
As jhowell has pointed out they are doing things with layouts in KFX now that aren't possible with AZW3 or ePub, "enhanced typesetting" is just one of the KFX "features".