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Vivan · 05-18-2011, 01:06 PM

I'm the administrator on a largeish (~20,000 users) website based on uploading and downloading ebooks.

Currently we have no official trumping system and as such allow all of the following formats:

PDF
DJVU
CHM
LIT
RTF
HTML
MOBI
TXT
EPUB

I feel that this is too many and there are varying types of each - e.g. a retail PDF vs. a scan vs. an OCR'd scan, obviousy the retail PDF is the highest in the hierarchy.

I'm trying to minimise the number of books in different formats, whilst still retaining enough breadth to allow anyone to find an ebook in a format that they are able to read. I'm considering removing LIT, RTF, HTML, DJVU, CHM and TXT though I don't really know enough about ebook formats/ readers to make that call, which is why I'm here asking you.

I need to find which are the ideal set of formats that would allow maximum breadth without redundancy. The only ones I *know* fall in this set are Retail EPUB, Retail MOBI and Retail PDF. Are there others, or will those three suffice for any ebook reader?

05-18-2011, 01:06 PM	#1
Vivan Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: none	"Best" ebook formats I'm the administrator on a largeish (~20,000 users) website based on uploading and downloading ebooks. Currently we have no official trumping system and as such allow all of the following formats: PDF DJVU CHM LIT RTF HTML MOBI TXT EPUB I feel that this is too many and there are varying types of each - e.g. a retail PDF vs. a scan vs. an OCR'd scan, obviousy the retail PDF is the highest in the hierarchy. I'm trying to minimise the number of books in different formats, whilst still retaining enough breadth to allow anyone to find an ebook in a format that they are able to read. I'm considering removing LIT, RTF, HTML, DJVU, CHM and TXT though I don't really know enough about ebook formats/ readers to make that call, which is why I'm here asking you. I need to find which are the ideal set of formats that would allow maximum breadth without redundancy. The only ones I know fall in this set are Retail EPUB, Retail MOBI and Retail PDF. Are there others, or will those three suffice for any ebook reader?