Thread: Good Bye MOBI
View Single Post
Old 07-10-2009, 10:08 AM   #30
Elfwreck
Grand Sorcerer
Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Elfwreck ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Elfwreck's Avatar
 
Posts: 5,187
Karma: 25133758
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA
Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)
Quote:
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...
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.
Elfwreck is offline   Reply With Quote