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Old 05-01-2009, 01:40 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
My point was that by simply renaming mobi to azw Amazon indicated their intention of not further developing the MOBI format. In other words, they smothered Mobipocket, the ebook company they took over before Stanza.
I think that was to give them the possibility to have a format that only works on the Kindle. If they had said it was the MobiPocket format they could not introduce enhancements on the Kindle without making sure that the format also works in old MobiPocket readers.
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