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You can subtract Apple's walled garden because a lot of it isn't standard ePub. But you have to include B&N's walled garden as their (no-fixed reflowable) ePub is ePub. It just has a different DRM. So yes, that does count as ePub because it is.
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And if you're going to make a claim that "a lot of it (iBooks) isn't standard ePub" then you need to back it up. Got figures? |
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But as for B&N, the DRM is irrelevant. What is relevant is that if you remove B&N's DRM, what you are left with is standard DRM. So yes, B&N counts toward ePub readership. |
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That's crap. B&N sells ePub. You Just don't seem to understand ePub. You think iBooks' fix-layout format is ePub. The nook uses ADE. The only thing B&N sells that isn't ePub is fixed-layout.
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The fixed layout is Epub. It passes validation. Everyone besides you has conceded the issue. Just because you've made up your own personal set of rules does not change the fact that the fixed layout ebooks are Epub. |
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If I buy say an eBook from B&N that's published by Simon & Shuster and remove the DRM, it's a standard ePub eBook. The only thing different about it is the DRM. The eBook under the DRM is a box standard ePub. What about that don't you get? Because it is ePub, it counts. If I download the sample, it will be standard ePub (without DRM). This has nothing to do with what I want and everything to do with what actually is. When B&N first started selling eBooks, they were selling eReader format. Now they sell ePub. The same reflowing ePub that other shops sell but with different DRM. So if you read an ePub purchased from B&N, you are reading ePub. Every eBook I've purchased from B&N has been ePub. B&N sells ePub with a different flavor of DRM. Last edited by JSWolf; 08-27-2012 at 10:40 AM. |
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When you remove the DRM from B&N's (reflowable) ePub or Adept ePub, you get box standard ePub. |
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Forgetting sales figures which nobody has to be definitive. We have more stores selling ePub, more readers able to handle ePub, we have more countries where we know ePub reins supreme. So it's fairly obvious that when you don't just mention the USA, that ePub has to be #1.
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