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Originally Posted by =X=
I'm not following you what is unique? The point of my comment was that Amazon chose to keep one extension for all their different formats. Download a Topaz book on the Kindle for PC and you will see it has the PRC extension.
The point I'm making is the software has to handle the different format it supports. The format identity is kept within the file, sure it can use the extension but that is not reliable since anybody can change a name.
So there is no need to expose the different formats by displaying different extensions.
I don't know where your example of ePub came in since we are talking about mobi and topaz formats
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But that's not correct for the PC world. It only works if you associate the Amazon reader with that file type. By using the same file extension for different types of files the PC has no idea that they are different.
a *.doc file is opened my MS-Word (even if it's a Wordperfect file) and it results in an error. If I try to open an amazon PRC file by clicking on it, it trys to open it with mobiReader and gets an error because it not really a .mobi file or it DRM'd etc.
What I'm saying is that for programs in general to work properly in the PC world then the file extension should be associated with a unique file type/format otherwise errors can result.