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Old 05-22-2011, 08:12 PM   #102
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Originally Posted by Phogg View Post
Epub was unvailed in September of 2007 to supercede the Open Book format. The Epub project was merely an update project, the publishers involved had been producing ebooks for some time. Their standard was inferior to Microsoft's .lit books and .pdb books for Palm.

Amazon released their Kindle devices two months later, in November of 2007.
Amazon already owned Mobipocket. So by going with that as the format with updated DRM, it meant that when Amazon started with Kindle eBooks, they would already have a good selection of eBooks available.
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