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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Well, if you think a standard is only the one that dominates then it is certainly not a standard. But if you think a standard is one that has be adopted by a standards committee then it is a standard. Check the wiki for details. ePub is an open format defined by the Open eBook Forum of the International Digital Publishing Forum (<idpf>). It is based on XHTML and XML along with optional style sheets. Its predecessor was the OEB standard. Specifications are found at the idpf web site.
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I think any standard, whether officially blessed by an industry standards body or not, is meaningless until widely
adopted.
Who actually
issues books in ePub format now? What can be used to
read them?
It may well become widely adopted, and become a standard in practice as well as in theory. It would be nice if
something was adopted as a standard by everybody producing ebooks and gear to read them. But until that happens, whether a book is available in ePub format isn't a factor in my decisions.
(The biggest boost to ePub I can think of at the moment would be Adobe choosing to support the format on the Kindle. I don't see that happening near term.)
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Dennis