Thread: Can e-Publishing Overcome Copyright Concerns?
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Old 06-26-2008, 06:42 PM   #433
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
Agreed, once they generate them.

I'm cynical about ePub as an end-user format, but from what I know, it might be a perfect intermediate format. Once you have the book in ePub format, all the elements are there that you might want, and converting from ePub to Mobipocket, Sony LRF or what have you should be fairly trivial.

And Adobe Indesign creates ePub formatted files, and lots of folks already use InDesign for publishing markup.
BooksOnBoard is selling ePub books already, and they don't even use any custom wrapper a-la LIT or Mobi - just the same ePub-zip, only with HTML/picture files encrypted.
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