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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There is NO REASON Amazon could not have done these enhances features using KF8. Prove to me what KFX only features could not have been done with KF8 and upgrades to the KF8 renderer?
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I agree that it would have been possible for Amazon to add features to their existing formats instead of creating a new one.
They get both a performance improvement and additional lock-in by switching to a compiled format. It is likely that both were factors in the decision to create KFX. I doubt that Amazon will ever announce the reasoning behind their decision.
Added: There are probably other factors involved that we don't know about. It is odd that KF8 was never released for the iOS app. That was the first device to support KFX e-books, even before e-ink kindles.