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Originally Posted by griffonwing
I don't think it can be seen quite that way. N-one except Amazon can create the Kindle format. That's why there is a big debacle about Amazon converting PD books to Kindle format, allowing them to be sold, then pulling the books from the Kindles.
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Actually, this is slightly incorrect.
You can create .mobi and .azw files via many means. For example, Stanza for Mac can export as a dozen file types including .azw and .mobi
Pretty much anyone can submit a file to Amazon for sale on their site; I may be wrong, but only Scribd is as open as Amazon in that respect. Whatever you publish that way is set to whatever price you want, including $0.00.
And as you well know by now, it isn't public domain books that get yanked from Amazon's servers, it's books that violate copyright laws.
Scribd's open nature is not without similar problems, I might add; Scribd is rife with copyright violations and
ads disguised as ebooks. They do try to keep things clean, but are clearly far from 100%....
Oh, and a quick edit. I, for one, welcome our new B&N Overlords in the e-book business.
The more outlets for e-books, the better things will be for the book industry as a whole.