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Originally Posted by fjtorres
All that makes it a *specification* not a standard.
There is a difference.
There are dozens of international standard-setting bodies (ISO, ECMA, etc); epub has been certified by none and has been submitted to none. It builds on true standards like HTML and XML but it is not itself a product standard.
More, true standards come with trademarks and certification penalties and enforcement power behind them.
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Okay then. If there are no true standards in the e-book world, then I personally will go with ePub as what I consider the best of the currently available and in-use specified options*, for the reasons previously stated. Especially since they and the former OEB seem to be the only ones to have bothered to lay the cards out on the table for people to see and work with openly.
* Even though it could seriously use some work in the form of an accompanying dictionary specification proposal and one for interoperable annotations, not to mention more advanced formatting/layout and better metadata, rather than this weird hyperlinking ad-inclusion whatever that EPUB3 is apparently chock-full of.