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Originally Posted by Jack B Nimble
Great... So then we end up like the early days of the web. "Best viewed using..."
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Yeah, you're right, no one really wants to see that happen. But as long as the actual content is the same, as Jon suggests it should be, then it's up to the user to decide which e-reader they prefer based on features... and it's up to the manufacturer to come up with the best combination of features to sell their e-reader.
The situation does have some troubling parallels to the browser wars... but it would worse if, say, Sony was actively guiding OEBPS to run on their new e-reader. At least Adobe is not creating HW (or content) to run in the OEBPS format, so they are relatively impartial here.
And ultimately, if Adobe doesn't handle this properly, the content and HW makers will simply ignore OEBPS and take to a different format (or formats, putting us back where we started...)