Thread: which format will win?
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Old 02-21-2010, 10:12 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
I don't doubt that either, but overall sales world-wide (which amazon only recently entered) is more what I'm interested in. Overall sales (by all bookstores) of ebup (or other formats) vs mobi.
Well, it's really only recently that e-reading devices have taken off world-wide - this is a pure guess, but I'd suspect the US is still the market leader, in terms of e-reader adoption, by a large enough margin that the global numbers won't look too different from the US numbers. That's subject to rapid change, of course.

"Standard" aside, .epub is probably a decent solution for long-term viability, since even if the format itself continues to splinter to the point of unusability, once you disinfect it you can pull out the source XHTML, and that will still be useful long after the various container formats have gone the way of .lzh.
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