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Old 05-13-2023, 09:45 AM   #2099
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Microsoft's .lit, Sony's BBeB(.lrf), Peanut Press's eReader (.pdb)... and the list goes on. I know it's fun to paint Amazon as the only wrench in the path to a one-open-ebook-format-to-rule-them-all nirvana, but It's not entirely accurate. Everybody was in the proprietary format development game in the beginning. At the time epub became the defacto standard of all non-Amazon ebook stores, it would have made no sense for Amazon to retool in order to adopt a format/DRM scheme it clearly didn't need.
Totally. It would have been idiotic of Amazon!

And before reflowable ebooks, the WYSIWYG PDF (since 1992?) with encryption.
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