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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
See! This reasoning is something I look on as a flaw. If it's so easy to change standards and languages, how are we to keep a durable one? That is what we need, something that will stand the test of time like alphabet!
(It's not personnal JS, just an immediate example. Forgive me if it startled you)
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I know the problem is too many companies want their piece of the pie so they think ... If we create our own format, then anyone who purchases our reader will have to purchase books from us.
That's wrong. We want a format that we know is going to be well supported even if the company was to go under. But, the BD example I gave is a good one because if there ever is this ONE format someday, just create the output for BD, output it and you're done. The problem is too many formats. Mobi, LIT, LRF, PDB, FB2, IMP, WOLF, PDF just to name a few. Why do we have so many different ebook formats? Why do we need so many? Can't we just have one that isn't going to impose DRM on us?