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Originally Posted by Quoth
No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_eBook OEBPS = essentially epub1 1998. There was even a dedicated (LCD based) ereader.
Microsoft LIT files for Microsoft Reader are simply an extension of the CHM file format, and thus use LZX compression, but with DRM.
More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reader
The LIT format was / is proprietary. The OEBPS (really epub1) was open sourced before LIT existed. LIT was maybe better than mobi as a format (but I'm not sure), but it was a proprietary disaster.
There is no relationship between epub, LIT and mobi other than they all used HTML in some fashion and were for ebooks.
The epub2 is directly developed from OEBPS, though there is no actual epub1.
Sadly the Web standard people took over epub2. |
Lit was not a disaster. Lit was actually pretty good back then. It was ePub before ePub. You cannot just take Lit as is and put the files in an ePub container. There are some changes that have to be made for it to work as ePub. It's been so long since I've converted Lit that I do not remember what needs to changed.
The only thing proprietary to Lit was the DRM and the container.