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Originally Posted by maximus83
But it means they should stay aligned with the world community and use open file formats, enabling interoperability and driving greater innovation. I am 100% against what they do with their proprietary data formats, even though I love the functionality of their ereaders, and their vast library of ebooks.
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It's worth keeping in mind the history of all this. Mobi files were developed years before the epub format. Amazon bought Mobipocket who was one of the very first companies selling ebooks for portable devices. Epub came along later. It's well that it did but by that time Mobi was well established as a popular format.
Even today I think it's a safe bet that the majority of ebooks sold are in Mobi format. Epub is a very good and useful format and I'm very glad it's there but Mobi is surely the mainstream format.
Not that I disagree with you. In a better world ereading devices would be made by hardware manufacturers with more variety so we'll buy the ones we want instead of by book sellers with the intent of selling more books. And half the starlets in Hollywood would be lined up at my door hoping to spend some time with me. But that doesn't seem to be the world we live in.
Barry