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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
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.
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I'm trying to work out which was first, Sony or the Kindle .... I've got Oct 2007 for the Sony ereader and Kindle was the following month. ADE was released June 2007. (subject to correction of course)