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Originally Posted by eerok
An open standard also mitigates the ability of a corporate entity to control in its self-interest the access and use of data you have created yourself or legitimately purchased. In my 30+ years as a computer geek, I've seen lots of proprietary file format games, and in my old age I simply decline to play along. Smart people would follow my example. In the wars to come (I don't want to alarm anyone, but they are already here), open standards and open source are the way to go.
When you accept a proprietary format, you accept power over you. So it's not all about which store you like.
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This is nonsense.
EPUB is an open standard. But EPUB books you buy from Sony, B&N, Kobo, or Apple are all DRM'd. EPUB+DRM = proprietary standard. EPUB books with different DRMs aren't necessarily compatible with other EPUB books, for that matter.
So DRM's EPUBs are about the same as Amazon's format, which has the advantage of 75-80% of the US market.