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Originally Posted by cerement
Unfortunately PDF is not an ebook format, it's a layout format 
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) ... |
I think it was desperately needed. There are too many formats, you're right, but what was needed was an agreed upon standard for ALL books, a ratified standard like they have with DVD/Blu-Ray etc. This standard is needed to prevent incompatibilities going forward. If you look at the specs for DVD or Blu-Ray it has suggestions for Codecs, max and minimum resolution, file structure withiin the actual disc itself. Without this there'd be no way to guarantee any ease of use.