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Originally Posted by kfarmer
A canonical format shouldn't be lossy (ie, epub -- or whatever -- should be a superset of every supported format). Beyond that, there's no reason to care: epub just becomes another supported format.
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There is a good reason to care. The choice of format might influence how much code you can reuse or get for free. The format should also be a format that have good support in form of parsers and a format that is easy to work with in different language. That is because the work done with formats and how to translate between them is generally useful if you want to implement something similar in another language.