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Originally Posted by jocampo
When that happens, 3, 4 or 5 years later, the MS-SQL, Oracle or whatever book I have is too old to keep! At that point I don't want that book anymore. That could be true if we're talking about "El Quijote" or "Cien aņos de Soledad" or any other classic which has been immortalized already. Those books are easily to convert, pure text, like same way I can convert an mp3 Beethoven's symphony to OGG so I can play it without additional drivers on my Linux box.
Neither you or I can tell for sure, which electronic format will finally stay or survive, it could be that the market will keep supporting two or three, at the same time. Everything depends of the sales and what people buy. And people are buying more Kindle books than B&N books, the sales are there, you can Google that.
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See I don't think there is a particular war going ala HD DVD vs Blu ray a couple of years ago, where there was going to be a winner or loser.
I think it'll be similiar to digital music where multiple formats will be available and one being the most widely useds along the lines MP3 being the most popular but also having aac, ogg vorbis, FLac and then of course there wil still be proprietory formats like Amazons AZW and BN's DRMePub just as there is Applelossless.
I really do see this shaping up to be very similiar to the digital music formats with ePub being the MP3 of the ebook world.