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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
My point was in this hypothetical future where Amazon, B&N and Rakutan have all bitten the dust, devices/apps that can read ePub content will still be around as it does not require impossible to obtain licensing held by a now defunct corporation.
Also, please remember, we are only talking about the feasibility of e-books we own now still being accessible in an imaginary twenty years where those corporations have gone bye-bye. All of my books are DRM free ePub, so they will still be readable.
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But of course there are applications, including open source applications, which read and convert Amazon formats now and do not have a licence from Amazon. Even assuming new applications are necessary in the future and require licences, if there is no one around entitled to grant a licence there will be no one around entitled to sue. It is difficult to imagine future circumstances where epub is accessible but Amazon formats are not.