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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Yeah, epub is NOT propietary. Everything about it is based on common, and open, existing setups (XHTML, and Zip compression), and that which is new is an open standard. It also has it's roots in the Open eBook standard (it supercedes it).
It is the furtherest thing from propietary you can get. However, that doesn't mean it can't have DRM thrown on top of it, since it is a container format.
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That makes ePub a good thing (minus the DRM, of course, but that's a given).
I personnally use FB2 (Fiction Book 2) as my preferred format, which is also an XML format making it open and very portable across devices/readers and able to be easily extracted, etc. ePub probably has some more up-to-date XML options to use, but FB2 does everything I need (incl. tables, images, etc.).
If anyone want to see how your ePub is "wrapped" up, just change the file extension from .epub to .zip, extract the archive and you will see the basic files/folders contained therein.
Cheers.