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Originally Posted by MrSlow&Steady
Based on what you guys said KFX sounds like a scam then, right?
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No, it's not.
Advantages for reader: Able to start reading while Whispernet downloading. Really only an advantage for Apps on Mobile/Cell connection or few Kindles with cell modems. Also in theory better rendering.
Advantages for Amazon: More control of over DRM, apps and ereader. Maybe slightly lower cost Whispernet via Cell/Mobile delivery. Does print replica differently to older formats. Also them to create a "walled garden" for the extra features on the Scribe, which also disqualifies it from business use (privacy issues and need to use internet & Amazon servers to load content and export annotations / notes from Scribe. Maybe this is why sales of Scribe are falling badly.
Since no-one can upload KFX for publishing, the formatting claims vs azw3 rendering are moot. The "Enhanced Typesetting" could be equally done with a revised azw3 renderer. Of course the upload workflow isn't the same for big publishers vs KDP used by self publishing and smaller publishers.
AZW3 is certainly good enough for novels / fiction and hugely better than old mobi, which was already obsolete when Amazon released 1st kindle in 2007.