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Originally Posted by maximus83
Epub is the only format endorsed by the W3 ( https://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/ebook/), the web standards body, and the only format that despite all its many imperfections, has any chance of widespread adoption. |
That rather ignores the observed reality that MOBI and its derived formats
have achieved widespread adoption, wider then ePub.
Endorsed also seems a little strong for what appears to be a rather slanted working draft that doesn't appear to be linked from its parent page, and the number of spelling mistakes doesn't inspire confidence.
I don't have any particular interest in what a
web standards body says about my eBooks, it doesn't seem particularly relevant, as far as I can see. HTML is a pretty crappy basis for a book format, but unfortunately it is ubiquitous.
In an alternate universe a semantic-based format like TEI would have predominated, but we are were we are.