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Old 07-09-2009, 10:54 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
Can you please explain to me, why proprietary e-book formats are better that HTML anyway? E-books, especially on E-ink readers aren't multimedia events anyway...
ePub is basically XML with other stuff added in. The problem is that a lot of portable devices are limited in what they can do. So ePub overcomes this limitation. HTML cannot really overcome these limits.
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