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Bremen Cole · 01-29-2010, 05:38 PM

Any book, and any device.... this is why I am so pro ePub (novels, popular books) and PDF (technical). Is ePub and PDF the best that can be? I'm sure not. no more than MP3, DOC, html, VHS, Blueray...etc... are necessarily the best. But we need a standard, and these are the most widely used. There is no doubt in my mind in 5 years Amazon will not use the format they use now. The closed system only works for so long, and then the competition forces the change.

DRM is a whole separate issue.

01-29-2010, 05:38 PM	#9
Bremen Cole Wizard Posts: 1,115 Karma: 2718 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Texas Device: iPad	Any book, and any device.... this is why I am so pro ePub (novels, popular books) and PDF (technical). Is ePub and PDF the best that can be? I'm sure not. no more than MP3, DOC, html, VHS, Blueray...etc... are necessarily the best. But we need a standard, and these are the most widely used. There is no doubt in my mind in 5 years Amazon will not use the format they use now. The closed system only works for so long, and then the competition forces the change. DRM is a whole separate issue.