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Originally Posted by Hadrien
ePub is not THE solution to eBabel, but it is part of the solution. Even if company A and B used ePub with different DRM, it would mean that if someone cracked those DRMs, the DRM-less file would work on both devices. Or if I decided to publish my own book in ePub without DRM, it would be compatible with both devices.
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I accept what you're saying, Hadrien. I just fear that, in a year's time, we're going to have half a dozen different DRM mechanisms on ePub, and we'll be in a worse situation than we are at present wrt DRM. I know that MobiPocket has technical limitations, but it is pretty much a
de facto "standard" at present, being readable on a huge range of different devices, and sold by numerous different eBook stores.
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Another important aspect is that ePub is more standard than other formats, therefore it is much easier to create ePub files with existing tools, unlike formats such as LRF or Mobipocket where you need new tools to produce them.
Thanks to CSS support, SVG and various other features, ePub is also more powerful than the current crop of formats. It'll be much easier to create a good looking book using ePub as a source for these formats, than the other way around.
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Yes, that's a benefit of it that I absolutely do agree with you about. We need to see ePub supported by a much wider range of portable devices, however, before it's going to become an important player in the market (IMHO). How feasible is it, I wonder, to implement ePub readers on low-power devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, etc? My impression is that, precisely due to the "potential" of the format, that it needs pretty high-spec devices to render it well?