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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
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...
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They're not.
Except for publishers who insist on DRM.
The "better" is "better ability to limit the customer's use of what they've bought," hyped as "better protection against unauthorized reading."
As mentioned, ePub isn't proprietary, and it's just HTML in an ebook-shaped wrapper.