Thread: Frustrated with all the recent posts by Kindle-only authors
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Old 08-30-2009, 04:40 PM   #144
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
There's no irony there. ePub is a relatively new format that has yet to be accepted, or even heard of, by most people.

PDF was introduced by Adobe almost 2 decades ago, aggressively developed, redeveloped and marketed by being pre-loaded into computers and browser programs, promoted in big business, and readers given away for free with a link from every website, worldwide. (Little Known Fact: In their opening days, they edged out of the market a similar product introduced by WordPerfect at about the same time.)

Given all of that effort expended by Adobe, it's no wonder PDF is as ubiquitous as it is. And if they expended the same amount of effort on ADE, I'm sure we'd see the same ubiquitousness in... about 20 years.

Actually, ePub is on the right track, as more readers adopt it, more e-books are offered in it, and more apps are developed to read it. Having a central site for most of those apps, instructions, etc, wouldn't hurt (the IDPF should set up such a user-friendly site, their present site isn't very inviting to the consumer, and of course do a better job at branding it).
Actually ePub is HTML. And HTML is at least 18 years old.

ePub is trying to accomplish what HTML could not accomplish in 18 years... with HTML.

Good luck!

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