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Originally Posted by jhowell
I agree that this mostly affects public domain providers and small stores like Smashwords and Baen. The short term issue is that these providers have been telling their Kindle customers to use the MOBI format and changing that will cause some confusion.
With this change I expect most of them to drop MOBI as an offered format and that will be a good thing for everyone..
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No, they won't drop mobi because not everyone uses "Send to Kindle". My point is it doesn't affect these people. They do epub & mobi/kindle and will continue to do so. It makes their Kindle customers dependent on the whim of an Amazon Cloud service if they have epub only!
Kindlegen for Linux is not Windows Kindlegen.
Also there are Kindles no longer registered with Amazon. Too many returns and Amazon can block your account. Or kindles mistakenly blacklisted.
Anyone offering files for Kindles would be mad to to do epub only. It's costing them nothing extra.