Thread: McGraw-Hill digital textbooks coming to the Entourage Edge
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Old 01-06-2010, 07:13 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by EatingPie View Post
A new format is definitely a step backwards. We've been moving toward a standard (ePUB), and anything that hinders that is a bad thing.

It may be that ePUB isn't flexible enough to handle complex text books (lots of pics and text and equations), but it's basically html, so some formatting would lose, but it should work.

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It's not going to be a new format. I seriously doubt that it will even be the Connect format because I don't think it's worthwhile for Entoruage to spend that much money to port and integrate another reader software.
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