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Originally Posted by GeoffC
she mentioned available with amazon for the kindle, and then mentioned a hope for mobipocket, to my mind that implies a separation - if I'm wrong I apologise.
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Nothing to apologize for. The problem is that Amazon owns the Kindle and Amazon also owns Mobipocket. Since Amazon's purchase of Mobipocket (and possibly before) Mobi requires an exclusive agreement, that is, if you license Mobi you can't license competing proprietary formats (I wonder if that includes ePub). So even if the books are made available via Mobipocket, people who own, for example, Sony Readers can't buy or read the books (except by breaking the DRM and converting). That doesn't seem to me to be the way to expand one's readership, by limiting who can buy and read your books.