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Old 01-13-2011, 08:49 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
Epub is an open standard; anyone with a text editor can make their own epubs from scratch. Since the Kindle has a web viewer, it obviously has some form of .html support; adding .epub support should be a very simple matter, as software goes.
AZW is Mobipocket with a slightly different DRM scheme. Mobipocket has documentation on the file format and is HTML based as it is an implementation of the "Open eBook Publication" standard. Anybody can create a .mobi/.prc file from scratch if they wish.

Mobipocket is an older standard than ePub.
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