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Originally Posted by leebase
Standards ALWAYS lag innovation. ePub isn't even "the standard" for ebooks. It's the "we want to topple Amazon" competitive effort because Amazon's .mobi format IS the standard due to it's market share. Amazon innovated, had first mover status (ok, first SUCCESSFUL mover) and now it's format is THE format.
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Amazon is the standard by numbers, and it's bad, just as it's bad that Microsoft is the standard by numbers on desktop systems. Amazon runs mobi; everything else runs epub. Desktop computers (most of them) run Windows, while everything else runs some version of Unix or Linux.
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In order to compete, the rest of the industry has come up with a standard, that really can never be the standard. It's simply _a_ standard. So no matter what, a publisher has to support Amazon's .mobi as it's the market leader, and ePub to reach the rest of the wannabe's (including Apple).
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Yes. And IMHO, that's bad. It's not good to have one company that dominates such an important market, be it computers, phones, or (interactive) books.