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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Presuming DAK means "Does anybody know", I can answer that question. No. But there are ways to format shift some of the Kindle format books (from my understanding, there are two formats, one can be format shifted, the other not, or maybe it can but it's much more work...)
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Adding to Sweetpea's comments. Most of the Amazon/Kindle files are in a format that is simply mobipocket with a different extension (book.azw instead of book.mobi). If you change the extension to .mobi then they will work as regular mobipocket files. These files are easy to shift to another format such as the Sony format using a program such as Calibre, which can be found through these forums.
The problem is that most (all??) of the Amazon files are copy protected so that you can't copy or modify them. In this case, renaming them will not do the job. Mechanically removing the copy protection is easily done if you have the proper software. However, this may not be legal in your country.
The bottom line is that format shifting is technically simple, but may have legal or ethical complications.