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Old 03-05-2009, 01:57 PM   #109
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Wouldn't the "de facto standard" actually be PDF?
Unfortunately PDF is not an ebook format, it's a layout format

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I own a Sony and would NEVER argue for BBeB/LRF to be an archival standard. An archival standard needs to be open and (to reiterate Zelda) non-proprietary in order to be somewhat futureproof.
ePub currently looks to be the best bet ...

But I still wonder why we had to create yet ANOTHER ebook format with all the existing ebook formats out there (everything from the current TEI Lite all the way back to grand-daddy standards of LaTeX (from TeX) and DocBook (from SGML) ...
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