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Originally Posted by Quoth
It was crazy that the Kindle was launched with essentially 10 years out of date language support and using mobi. Suggests that Amazon initially concentrated on the HW, maybe even based on eInk reference design for the panel. Perhaps the Paperwhite 2 was the first decent Kindle.
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There wasn't any better option at the time. Remember, Epub didn't exist in 2005, while Mobipocket had a well established code base and several really nice tools.