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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon was not stupid enough to claim that AZW is Mobipocket even though under the DRM, it is Mobipocket. B&N could have done the same thing and changed the file extention to something else to let people know that it's not the same DRMed ePub as before.
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The EPUB spec allows B&N to call it EPUB because according to the spec it still is EPUB. Like I said one of the parts of the EPUB spec is to allow multiple DRM system to be used on the files while still being EPUB.
Also, Amazon did and still does make the same mistake by claim that AZW and TPZ are the same. Every book I've bought with the Kindle For PC software uses the PRC file extension. Regardless if it's AZW or TPZ. The only way I can tell them apart is by looking at the first few bytes of the file to see if it has a MOBI header.
Further, why would B&N want to use a different file extension. That would have made people think they were selling their own propitiatory format. They were planning on doing that with the eReader format but decided against it. Instead opting to use EPUB.
The point is. B&N has done nothing wrong in regard to calling their book EPUB because they conform to the EPUB specification which allows for this confusion to exist in the first place.