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Originally Posted by xianfox
Amazon owns Mobipocket and the Mobireader software they employ. There is nothing to stop Amazon in the future from locking the Mobireader software to only work with books purchased through the Amazon store.
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Yes there is - their own commercial interest. They paid a lot of money for MobiPocket, and Mobi books sell world-wide. It is perhaps easy for people in the US to overestimate the influence of the Kindle and the Amazon eBook store - outside the US they are a total irrelevence. The MobiPocket business is world-wide. It would be commercial idiocy for Amazon to do anything but encourage its growth.