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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Are you even aware there are countries and people outside the US ?
Seriously, this "only US matter" is insulting.
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No, it's not insulting. It is merely accurate - I used US so as to deliberately not conflate it with the rest of the world. Although the US e-book market is both much larger and growing much faster than the European e-book market.
But epub isn't really the "standard" because it's common in western Europe.
What is annoying - and the context in which I was responding - is the repeated claim that epub is the "standard" format, and the related claim that Amazon somehow deliberately broke the standard going with drm'd mobi. Of course the Kindle was out for about a year before the first epub reader came out, and it was only a little over a year ago that Sony finally dropped lrf.