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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Expense in the marketplace has nothing to do with how well a format is designed. That's a business issue, not a "format fault." It has no bearing on the quality of the format, or its usefulness as an e-book format.
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A well designed format like XML does not lead to expensive tool like for example SGML that is not well designed for the kind of tasks that XML is used for.
If the format is hard to implement or hard to understand and hard to validate tools for then tools will be expensive.