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Many of the Amazon-only ebooks are in the TOPAZ format. One way to tell is to look at the ebook's Kindle Store web page, which will not list a File Size:. See for example The Princess Bride by William Goldman (search for B001ELJQJU), which is a TOPAZ ebook. Like most TOPAZ ebook web pages, this includes Print Length: but not File Size:.
A TOPAZ ebook is based on a scan of the paper book made (with the publishers permission) by Amazon. The Quality of the OCR transfer is often low. It is possible to strip the DRM from a TOPAZ, but converting it to an alternative format is often more trouble than it is worth. So the only realistic option is to read it on a Windows PC using Kindle for PC or with some other Kindle software (e.g. iPhone or Black Berry). The entire point of making a TOPAZ version is that there is no alternative ebook available. Sometimes the publisher does later on make a proper ebook version (so that they can sell it on other sites), but this is relatively rare.
Note that in the US it is probably legal to strip DRM and format shift an ebook you bought yourself for your own personal use. This is only probably legal because it has never been tested in court and as a practical matter this is unlikely to ever end up in court (who would sue their paying customers?). To get a Kindle AZW ebook (the most common kind) onto the Pocket Pro, download it to Kindle for PC and use unswindle.pyw to strip the DRM. The resulting MOBI will work as in on the Pocket Pro, or convert it to ePub (say) using Calibre.
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