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Originally Posted by RWood
There are flaws in Mobipocket that they have never been able to get rid of -- page numbering comes to mind as the most bothersome. ePub is coming and this gives Amazon a jumpstart in the field.
They can also use the technology to produce a better reading experience for the Kindle owners. I see this as a win-win.
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I seriously doubt this take over has anything to do with Amazon wanting to acquire EPUB rendering capability. They could just have licensed it from Adobe if that was the case, or developed it in house, for next to nothing, using open an open source HTML rendering engine.