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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
a standard format means you buy the device you like and buy your books wherever you want.
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We already have that situation with MobiPocket. It's not a "formal" standard, but every eInk device on the market except Sony supports it. Buy a Mobi book and you can read it on a Kindle, a CyBook, a BeBook, an iLiad, a Hanlin, a JetBook, etc etc., not to mention hand-held devices such as PDAs, mobile phones, etc, pretty much all of which can read the format.
I know that you're a big fan of ePub, but the simple truth is that, in today's market, MobiPocket is much more of a widespread and popular format than ePub is. Perhaps that will change in the future when more devices support ePub (which, as you know, should be happening within the next few months), but MobiPocket is today's "buy it once, read it anywhere" format.
ePub is certainly a much more "advanced" format in terms of its formatting capabilities, but that really doesn't matter for the typical novel.