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Originally Posted by jgray
That is the purpose of the epub format and specification. It was developed by a committee that included some heavyweights and the specification is free to use by all.
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And it has all the shortcomings of anything "designed by committee" ...
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Originally Posted by jgray
It has been adopted by quite a few in a relatively short time. The major reason that some have not started using it has to do with greed, lock-in and control (did I hear someone say Amazon?).
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The major reason that most of the big names have not started using it is because they only adopted it for the publicity ... There were already several ebook standards in place with regular usage, major backers, and full sets of tools (LaTeX, DocBook, TEI), but the publishers who "adopted" ePub didn't want to be associated with those groups, but did want to get onto the buzz wagon ...