Thread: Which format is the best?
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Old 03-22-2009, 08:49 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
MobiPocket is without a doubt the most widespread and popular format out there. Pretty much every device on the market, except Sony, supports it. I have no idea what I'll be reading my eBooks on in 5 years time, but whatever it is, I am entirely confident that that device will support MobiPocket.

There's no reason to suppose that Amazon's ownership of Mobi means anything other than sound financial support for Mobi. Bear in mind that the Kindle is US only; Mobi sales are world-wide. The Kindle is entirely irrelevant for the vast majority of us.

ePub is technically a lot more capable than MobiPocket, but for novels those additional capabilities are pretty irrelevant. Most novels don't require complex formatting.
But one thing ePub can do that you cannot do in Mobipocket is embed multiple fonts. So even if the formatting doesn't need to be complex, you can make it more match a pBook with different fonts.
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