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Originally Posted by tompe
I meant that if people can buy books in other places it will reduce the income from Amazon's book selling it might be that the income from the book selling had been used to reduce the price of the Kindle.
That the azw format just now works very similar to the MobiPocket format does not mean that it is the same format. And since Amazon have full control they can update the azw format to something that is not compatible with MobiPocket.
Personally I do not consider files that uses to large image data to be proper MobiPocket files since they cannot be read on my Palm T5. So already now azw is not the same as a proper MobiPocket file.
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Actually it is the same format although they do allow larger images. Mobipocket itself now allows larger images. Folks have broken the DRM on AZW books and used them on other machines although I do not condone that. The image problem is a bit different in that the mobipocket format supports 3 different sized images for different sized devices. The book author or publisher is supposed to supply all three images but of course the AZW happens to be missing the smaller images. This is not a format change. You must know this since you already removed the DRM for your test.
The price of the Kindle clearly shows it is not be subsidized by the sale of books. Amazon makes a healthy profit on the reader.
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