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Old 12-05-2012, 04:09 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
According to Wikipedia, ePub came out in September 2007, while the first Kindle came out in November 2007.

But HTML and XHTML have been around for much longer than that.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
Mobipocket is based on HTML and the earlier OEB formats.
If you think two months between a standard being published, and a product being delivered means that it could have been adopted in that product, you have a very poor notion of product development and the time taken to get publishers to adopt a new format.

When Amazon adopted Mobipocket it was the major ebook format.
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