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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
... How many professional podcast makers do you chase for not using the same formats as TV broadcasters, incidentally?
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Uhm, the general public doesn't really care, they stream stuff like Hulu, or Netflix, which in fact do use the same formats as TV broadcasts.
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
... What Ahi wants allready exists. They're called print books....
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Nope, what Ahi wants may come to exist when Apple, or someone else, introduces a large-screen, color device, which will do for tablets/readears what the iPhone did for smart phones.
But, what you want, already exists, and has existed from the most primitive times of desktop computing. It's called plain text. And no, it's not the future.
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
... The majority of my reading is HTML....
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'nuf said.... Do you even have experience with an ereader?
I bet, you don't get why people want Flash and Java too....
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
... I am very wary of buying PDF because I cannot tell ahead of time if it's DRM'ed or not....
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Uhm, PDF is one of the formats, from which you generally strip the DRM rather easily.
I am not married to PDF, but I am worried, that another new format, like ePub, which is not really robust enough to support very complex layouts and is therefore destined to be another dead-end, will only confuse the market, and turn people off e-books.