That's pretty much how I understood things to be as well. Currently most *publishers* have to either create the specific DRM'd files that the distributors want, or they have to pay to get those files created (as in Sony .lrx). Epub is supposed to be a standard that all publishers could hand to various distributors and just say, "here this is the standardized file, if you need to implement a different format that is your problem".
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that epub was primarily meant as a tool for publishers rather than end-users. Isn't the idea that a publisher will produce a book in epub format, and then convert the resulting epub file into various device-specific formats?
Forgive me if I've got this completely wrong!
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