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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by Turing_Machine on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:47PM (#32430079)
I don't think Amazon actually had a realistic choice there.

The edition of 1984 in question was pirated. Amazon could either remove it, or face a massive fine for distributing pirated material.

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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by gambiting on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:16PM (#32430411)
Ah, right. Didn't know that!
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