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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why would they send out text files? They are not good for reading from as they lose all formatting and if they don't, you have to convert the formatting marks into real formatting.
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Plain txt is there as a fallback. For example, if someone wanted to read the book on a 1980's era Atari ST, they could.
RTF and HTML both contain all the formatting, and are the preferred choices for converting to something else.