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Originally Posted by daffy4u
Maybe that's why Amazon chose Mobi, because it was already so popular. Was epub even around when they first started working on the Kindle?
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Of course, the same parallell happened with music distribution to an extent. MP3 was the first on the block so it was adopted, then along came OGG and AAC. iTunes has some success with AAC, but it's by no means the most popular. OGG technically gives you more for less and is more flexible, even AAC is an open standard, but MP3 still survives despite it being a lesser format.
Fraeunheuffer (spelling?) must be jumping for joy at all the licensing
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Amazon is not using the MobiPocket format. Currently awz-files happens to be the same as MobiPocket files but that can change anytime since Amazon has easy control over the upgrade of all readers for the format. I suspect we will soon see a change in Amazon books that makes it impossible for them to work on certain MobiPocket readers.
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I used Mobi as shorthand because the files are so alike, and I'd hope that Amazon do move forward and adopt ePub, but I worry, that as with MP3, they have no incentive to do so. What they're using now seems to be working out okay for them, maybe they don't need anything more. What might happen is a continental divide, a kind of NTSC/PAL situation, where in Europe you have one standard, US another, Asia yet another format and so on.
We loose out of course, as always, with systems like this. Don't get me started on REGION ENCODING in DVD's
