Devising a standard is the easy part. Persuading Oxford, Collins, Chambers, Mirriam-Webster and all the other dictionary publishers to publish their dictionaries in that format, as they currently do in Mobipocket format; THAT is the challenge, and will, I fear, take years before it happens. And that's once you manage to get a dictionary format standard adopted by the ePub standards committee, which itself is going to be a far from trivial undertaking.
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