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Originally Posted by Sonist
Hey, I am not arguing that Amazon should give it away.
But their advertising implies something else. In bold letters. This is where the issue is, for me.
And in reality, they probably more than make it up in increased market share and current and future sales.
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Well, nothing has changed except the amount of the fee. So the time to be up in arms about this was Nov 2007, when it started.
In the meantime, Amazon can quit selling books in mobi if they want, but I don't see what they can do about Baen and Fictionwise and Manybooks selling (or giving away) books in unDRMed (and thus better) mobipocket, which the Kindle can use just fine. I don't see how that is proprietary.
And if it's a big fat hairy deal to use Stanza or Calibre to produce mobipocket files on your own from your own documents of whatever sort, the Kindle will also read .txt files natively.
You can't get much more generic and non-proprietary than that.