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Originally Posted by Quoth
Not comparable.
text files still work.
A USB stick at €12 add digital TV on a laptop (and some tablets via USB2Go).
A €45 box adds digital TV (terrestrial OR Satellite) to an old TV. Adds HDTV to an HDMI monitor. HDMI -> VGA adaptors also work with some boxes.
It costs NOTHING to keep supporting Mobi for those that need it, even from only docx & epub input. Running Analogue TV at the same time as Digita wastes millions and wastes spectrum, a very finite resource in short supply.
DAB and FM is a better analogy. The FM Spectrum is no use for anything else. It's purely a political act to benefit National Radio in the tiny number of countries where FM was turned off. Community and Local Radio is better served by FM.
Oh, and Ireland turned off DAB last May because only 44% coverage and only had National RTE apart from some test sites. Unlike like KF8, there isn't a lot of point to DAB, so it's also an imperfect analogy.
The only analogy is file formats. Wordprocessors still offer to save in text, doc (some even different kinds) and RTF as well as docx, HTML,PDF and odt.
Allegedly GRR Martin and some other authors still use Wordstar (which has at least two incompatible proprietary formats).
There are still people using both sorts of pdb, text, HTML or LRF as well as Mobi, because that's what the gadget they read on uses.
It's totally reasonable for Amazon to only accept epub, or docx or whatever and not mobi (KF7), but there is zero reason for them to stop delivering/producing it as that costs nothing extra if it's an Internet download.
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It can cost a lot of needless time and hassle for those creating eBooks using features that do not work or do not work well on Mobi. The reading experience in that case can be very poor. Or the KF8 version has to be dumbed down because of Mobi. It's not worth it to keep Mobi. LRF is dead. LIT is dead. PDB is dead. Lots of other eBook formats are dead. Let Mobi die.