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Originally Posted by NatCh
Not to discount any of what you're saying, balok, but they're hardly alone in that. 
If they'd chosen an existing format, they'd have had to choose someone else's lock in format -- it's not like there was a "standard" one already.
I take it as a good sign that they've signed on to the .epub thing. |
I doubt that this is a good sign in and of itself. epub does not address the DRM issue at all but permits users to develop their own. Signing up doesn't change that. It is likely that many .epub subscribers are going to use it as an authoring tool and then covert to their own format for distribution. Thus it will help authors to have a single source document but will not stop the proliferation of formats for the end users.
At least that is my take on it.
Dale