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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Beacause amazon and their "don't support any other drm than ours" made mobi a dead end ? Publishers are going epub.
And Epub is open  |
The problem here is not ePub or Mobi, the problem is DRM
You can use Mobi for the next 500 years if you want. The software is availabe and you can use it as you want. It is good enough for reading books. You only need very little formatting for the average book. Mobi can handle that. Epub can handle that also. Were is the advantage for the reader?
A big minus for ePub is dictionary support. As long as that does not work I wouldn't touch it with a stick. And even if it works it means that I will have to buy new dictionaries. So why do I want ePub?
It looks a lot like what is happening between Linux vs. Windows.
Linux is open, Linux is Free, Linux is supposed to be more secure, Linux is supposed to be as easy tot use as Windows. But what does 90% of the people use? Windows. Just because they are used to it, just because it does the job and they don't want to buy or install all kind of new software because the old Windows base software doesn't work on Linux.
People simply do not care about 'open' People care about functionality. They don't care how a washing machine works or if it is designed as an open system so that everybody can make parts for it. The want clean laundry