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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I'm confused the only "open source" e-book format I know of (prior to EPUB) is FB2. What are all these mythical e-book formats that are supposed to be confusing the poor befuddled end users? Sounds suspicously like all those Microsoft funded studies that concluded using open source software would cause the end of the world.
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Before I started making/converting books on my own, my primary source books was MemoWare. Run over to search page at MemoWare.com and take a look at the list of formats a book might be available in. When I finally broke down and started doing conversions, I had files in TealDoc, Weasel, PalmDoc, RichReader, MobiPocket, Peanut Press/PalmReader/eReader (I think it was called PalmReader at the time, but some sites still called it Peanut), plain text (in various encodings) and multiple versions each of iSilo and TomeRaider. Since the palm did not (by default) allow you to choose a document and launch the associated app, it could be a real pain if I wanted to look up some reference info but did not remember in which app/format the book was saved.
I am not sure which, if any, of these formats were 'open', but it certainly was a confusing assortment. I would certainly not have suggested ebooks to a bookworm who happened to be a technophobe, unless I limited them to a specific program and a source with a single format (which I did, thank you to PG! which was plain text only at the time).
The Bandit