Thread: Will you upgrade from Bebook to Bebook2?
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Old 06-19-2009, 07:40 AM   #17
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by Lbooker View Post
The problem is that mobi sold themselves to Amazon, and Amazon now force the competition to choose between mobi and competing file formats.
Basically mobi killed themselves by losing their independence.
It is pretty clear that strategically most independent e-reader makers must move away from mobi and embrace epub.
Hard to blame BeBook about that.
That explains lack of DRM'ed Mobi.

But *zero* Mobi support?
You don't need to deal with Amazon to implement DRM-free Mobi support (OpenInkpot and the various Linux readers support it that way).
That's how the BeBook 1 has been supporting ePub, too.
The formats are documented and there is ample open source code available to support it.

The key point is no support for Mobi in *any* form.
Considering the prevalence of prc as a legacy ebook format, stripping that feature out is a big minus.

This smacks more of a force-feeding than a DRM war.
$0.02
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