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Originally Posted by DNSB
As far as I can tell from the various reports I've read, Amazon will still supply mobi format ebooks to those older Kindle devices. When I checked, Amazon is now requiring TLS 1.2 or higher for connecting to the store which is not supported by the older devices firmware. This is pretty much mandated by the PCI-DSS
To quote the Amazon email:
So you are still going to need to think about those older devices when formatting ebooks.
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YES. OMG, I wish, wish wish that old-mobi were truly dead. I just tried to do a book with English-Hebrew and...oy vey. Now, to be fair, KF8 and all that worked pretty well, even going hog-wild and mixing RTL and LTR on the same line (yes, really!) but iBooks, aDE, etc. choked on it and I knew it would NEVAH work in KF7, KCR, the LIT and all that. (sigh). So, it's back to wee bitty images of Hebrew, embedded in lines of English (more sighing).
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Originally Posted by Quoth
It's not actually dead.
It's just you can't send it to Amazon (unless a fixed layout) and non-touch Kindles can't access the store. It hasn't been possible to upload reflowable mobi to KDP for ages. The epub is preferred with docx as 2nd choice. Fixed layout have different rules and are not true ebooks, but like PDF, replicas of a particular layout on a particular size "page".
But we have bought Amazon eBooks for years and never used the store via the Kindle.
Some titles even that are reflowable are still pre-KF8 (mobi) format even on a Paperwhite.
Ebooks can still be purchased and downloaded for pre-KF8 (mobi) format only Kindles in "mobi" format.
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Yup. And therein lies the mobi, as Shakespeare said.
Hitch