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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, in this case, I think Mobipocket is doing us all a favor. Because what you will have happen is ePub will be the standard as Mobipocket goes away.
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I might agree but I now have a decent sized Mobipocket collection of books. I don't want to lose them. I believe people who did the conversions found the new formating at times to be poor. Maybe I am wrong. Not to mention the lose of using the dictionary, if true. For these reasons there is a cost with changing formats. I don't like it.
This also means new DRM epub books can in the future be vulnerable to a new format that doesn't even yet exist. Besides death and taxes another given is formats do change. Longevity for any media is less of an issue than whether it can be understood five, ten years from now. This is why this trend is very troubling to me. I am very concerned with how iRex and others are handling this issue.