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Originally Posted by daffy4u
The modification may have to do with the mysterious reason as to why MobiPocket still exists. Amazon could certainly have taken over and sold Mobi books as is. I still think there is some legal thing that keeps MobiPocket in play and Amazon with an tweaked version of mobi.
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There are technical reasons. They do not want to have to be compatible with old devices. Now they can have books with large images. If the had used MobiPocket format then this they would have gotten a lot of complaints from people with Palm devices when the book did not work.