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Originally Posted by eschwartz
It doesn't matter. All books can be read on any device via Alf, unless it is a library book and thus arguably immoral and outside the purview of Fair Use. In that case, you are limited to an ADE reader, since non-US libraries are not offering EPUBs, they are offering ADE EPUBs.
The EPUB "open standard" itself is inherently meaningless since AZW3/MOBI is just as "open".
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To the public at large? You've mentioned library books a bit, how many libraries support contemporary fiction in non ADE in the USA or outside of it.
Which US libraries offer other formats? Are there the same quantities of kindle (any and all formats) available in major US libraries as there are epub. Or any other formats for standard in copyright library loans? I can't find any (not 1 kindle ebook) but I have only looked at 10 and probably the wrong 10.
Outside of certain communities I think few remove DRM. Perhaps you have statistics that say otherwise, please let me know because all I can get from your posts recently in this thread is that you are saying the same thing over and over in the hopes you will wear people down by sheer stubborn repetition.
No offense intended.
Helen