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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What features would that be that ePub supports that KF8 does not that would cause the eBook to be KFX only?
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For some reason the Indic language books are KFX-only. I do not know what it is about those books that prevents them from being made available in KF8/MOBI. It seems that they do not want to support any new capabilities in the older formats.
One possibility is dictionary support. As of now those languages do not have Kindle dictionaries. I have seen indications that dictionaries in KFX format are coming soon with features that are unavailable in the existing MOBI-based dictionaries. Perhaps those books are KFX-only because their dictionaries require features that will only be supported in KFX.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Given that Amazon can do KFX only if the eBook doesn't support features of KF8, can't Amazon do this for KF8 and forgo Mobi when the eBook uses features of KF8 that Mobi doesn't support?
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Amazon does not appear to have any interest in phasing out MOBI, in fact as I mentioned previously, books produced using the new Kindle Create tool are available in either KFX or MOBI, but not KF8.
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Originally Posted by odamizu
Am I understanding correctly that Kindle Create is basically aimed at self-published authors with limited technical skills?
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Yes, it converts Word documents to KFX for publishing.
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Originally Posted by odamizu
Or am I deluding myself and there is reason to believe KF8 is being phased out, forcing people to purchase a KFX-capable device or accept MOBI?
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I doubt that they are phasing out KF8. I suspect that it was just easier for them to implement MOBI as a fallback for devices that do not support KFX than to produce both MOBI and KF8. MOBI is a safe fallback since every Kindle app/device supports it.