Thread: Kindle to utilize epub format in late 2022
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Old 05-03-2022, 05:11 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
No, they won't drop mobi because not everyone uses "Send to Kindle".
They can't drop mobi because people have existing books, and if they suddenly make all those books unreadable there will be a public relations firestorm, and Amazon really can't afford that right now: their rep is bad enough as it is. They got a lot of flack for remotely deleting *one book* when the alleged publisher turned out to not actually have the rights to publish it: what do you think would happen if the entire content of libraries purchased before about 2012 started to vanish?

(I'm also wondering what this means for periodicals. Nothing other than the MOBI reader can read them. Does this mean we can't email periodicals to our Kindles any more? If so, this is a major reduction in functionality for me and a good reason to see if the jailbreak provides something similarly convenient I can hack up with cron or something.)
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