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Originally Posted by crich70
I think publishing as it has been will have to adapt and change or find itself in history's trash can. Our ancestors saw it with the advent of the car. At first some models had a fake horse head on the front (to avoid scaring real horses) and eventually the automobile pushed the horse drawn cart to the side. Ray Bradbury expressed the idea in his story "The Toynbee Convector." A society that stagnates and doesn't progress dies.
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Some things should have stayed as they where. Because of sight problems, I can't drive a car; I am only allowed to drive a bike, or a moped. (The slow ones, up to 25 kph: I can go faster on a bike, for god's sake.)
Mostly I don't, because there are too many idiots driving cars... I'd feel much safer if everything was still done by horse.
And I actually like horses, even as a male. There. So shoot me
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Originally Posted by gmw
I don't know much about EPUB3 - other than it seems to be biting off more than might be good for it, but I see EPUB2 as pretty much the same sort of thing as ODF (Open Document Format) used by OpenOffice etc, but dedicated for ebooks (which is good). EPUB solves a lot of problems for which HTML has no elegant solution. ODF and EPUB allow a complex document to be both modular (an advantage for software, and for those debugging content problems), and a single file (an advantage for the user and distributor). It's a simple and elegant solution (or it could have been, had it not been designed by committee).
And, thanks to the wide acceptance of EPUB these days, there are effectively only two standards to worry about any more, and Amazon provides the tool to go from EPUB to Kindle so I really only have to care about EPUB.
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This; basically, the only two ebook formats still worth mentioning are MOBI/KF8 for the Kindle, and EPUB for everything else. As Amazon/Calibre provide the conversion tools to KF8, one only needs to have a good, clean EPUB source file to serve (almost) every current reader on the planet.