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Originally Posted by leebase
I understand the standard ebook format is currently .mobi, a proprietary format owned by Amazon. You know something's a standard when you can ignore all the other formats without facing economic hardship.
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ISO/IEC Guide 2:1996, definition 3.2 defines a standard as:
'A document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body that provides for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context'.
ETSI standards could be described in general as being 'definitions and specifications for products and processes requiring repeated use'. They are certainly a set of rules for ensuring quality.
A fuller definition of a 'standard' from an ETSI perspective would be:
'A technical specification approved by a recognized standardization body for repeated or continuous application, with which compliance is not compulsory and which is one of the following:
international standard: a standard adopted by an international standardization organization
European standard: a standard adopted by a European standardization body
national standard: a standard adopted by a national standardization body and made available to the public'.
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The definition isn't the only reason why .mobi is not a standard. You seem to be forgetting about KF8, which is the current format pushed by Amazon.