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Mobipocket - the end of an era
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After Microsoft's decision not to support LIT anymore this is the second time within one year that a once popular format (and its infrastructure) will vanish into oblivion, and again one infested with DRM. Makes you wonder what the situation will be like in, say, 2021 ... for both DRM and eBook formats. |
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One thing I wonder: mobi had a nice dictionary-implementation. The current epub readers mostly come with built in dicts (Sony, etc.), or some free stuff, which is pretty awfull (pocketbook). When will epub come up with something comparable, or did I miss something? |
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Mobipocket.com always had DRM on its books, so changing to Amazon will not change anything there.
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Do the new kindles support *.mobi?
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11-03-2011, 08:50 AM | #11 |
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Depending on the success of KF8, the mobi format may be put "on notice," but since the latest generation of Kindles still supports the mobi format, I suspect it will be quite some time before the mobipocket format is officially retired. Many years in fact.
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11-03-2011, 09:30 AM | #12 |
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I don't think the mobi format will ever be retired, in the sense of the present kindles being unable to read them. Amazon will simply not use it anymore, that's it.
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11-03-2011, 09:41 AM | #13 |
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The new Kindles support Mobipockt files with both the *.mobi and *.prc extensions provided the files are not restricted with the antique Mobipocket DRM. The non-DRM *.mobi and *.prc files posted here on MR work fine with all Kindles.
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