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Old 12-23-2007, 04:13 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Having said that ePUB is not connected to DE. There are other readers that can read ePUB and there will likely be readers that will not read ePUB directly but will convert a publishers ePUB document to their internal format. This is how all of the early readers worked. At the publication level there was once compatibility in GEB readers, Microsoft readers, MobiPocket readers and some others. This has subsequently been lost as these companies went their own way. Hopefully ePUB will bring them back together again along with some of the newer players.

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Dale
Dale,

Does ePub have any connection at all with the Open eBook (OEB) standard? That seems to work extremely well for those devices which support it. As you know, both MobiPocket and MS Reader (LIT) files are OEB books in a custom "wrapper", which is why it's so easy to convert LIT to Mobi (just "explode" LIT to OEB, and then rebuild the OEB to Mobi).
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