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Originally Posted by pilotbob
This question has been asked many times on this forum. Some fell because they want to sell more kindles. Some feel it is because there is some rule about mobipocket not discounting books so dealers can and since Amazon owns mobipocket those dealers would consider they were being undercut.
Me, I think they do it so we will all ponder this question in forums.
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I had always heard that they had a deal not to compete with book stores that were distributing Mobipocket books but now I wonder if that's true if they're going to be opening up to mobile devices and likely a desktop software reader. Even if they continue to call the format .azw at that point, it makes it way harder to make the argument that they're not poaching sales. Who knows? Maybe the deal is expiring. I think it would be great if they sold .mobi books and everyone could buy them. They could still keep the Kindle attractive by offering a special Kindle-owners' price. They probably couldn't justify the $9.99 new releases for everybody if they're taking a loss on them.