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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks
Yes, yes, I know, epub is an open format...but that doesn't mean ANYTHING when the epub book is shrink-wrapped in DRM to prevent the average person from using the book in the manner they see fit.
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Thus why Amazon probably won't be adopting it any time soon - the CS nightmare of trying to explain to the customer why their device which "supports epub, it says so in the ad!" won't read the book they just bought from Sony, or B&N, or the Apple bookstore.
As a container design, .epub is great. As a standard file format it's a total disaster, because
there isn't one, practically speaking.