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Originally Posted by ratinox
In practice, Topaz was never intended to be good. It was a way to quickly publish older books which lack digital sources and non-English language books.
tpz and azw1 are the same format. azw2 is something entirely separate: it is (was?) used to package game content.
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Kindle Store had 88,000 titles when the first Kindle launched, and many of those were Topaz. I've always been curious about the Topaz toolchain and how much effort it took to produce a title in that format, who did it.
Kindle launched in 2007.
One of my Topaz books was published in 2005 in hardcover (surely printed from PDF), still in stock for $40, but not available in digital anywhere (except for me and whoever bought the Kindle edition when it was available). Some no name publisher in Nashville, maybe a 'vanity publisher' (and out of business it seems: web site does not load). How did it come to be in Kindle Store?
Three others are math books from Springer, a huge publisher.