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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The difference being that EPUB and AZW3 are just plain old html. html is not going to be obsolete, unlike proprietary not-fully-understood formats that have reached their expiry date re: support from the manufacturers.
Next thing you know, plaintext files will be acquiring digital obsolescence as well.  |
If it's just plaintext, then why can't I slap a .mobi onto my PC and just open it? It's got an icky layer of DRM around it, that's why. And I thought EPUB was mostly xhtml...
I know this is circumvent-able (at the moment) by us tech-saavy, but still. Not just an open standard, precisely.
Still, ebooks have plenty of variants - I ended up with a Topaz book once, and Kobo has their kepub variant (which I don't know a lot about, but fear of getting it has stopped me from buying books from them).
Something to think about also - since people continue to buy DRM, and mostly Amazon, nothing is stopping Amazon from tightening up the DRM down the road - so this easy convertibility/access could dry up.