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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Agreed Robert. I wish the standard was Epub across the board.
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Dear All:
Actually, Astak (as EZRead, Inc.) is presently on several subcomittees to assist EPUB in really becoming universal. We work thru the IDPF governing body to adapt a new version of EPUB that will work well with ALL Chinese and Taiwan books.
Many people think it somewhat charming when they see Chinese characters written on a page that read vertically or read right-to-left. In actuality it is a horrible thing that so many pre-world war 2 Chinese masterpieces are in this right-to-left or verticle reading format and that is not conducive to EPUB at present.
My point is that although Joe may like FB2 and Sid likes Mobi and Mary likes CoolReader... EPUB is going to open up the world's true masterpieces to everyone. Now, EPUB can be made to work better and the new revision will do a lot for this. It is not all just Chinese books... it is a very thorough upgrade to EPUB that is being methodically done now. Due around January of 2011, the new EPUB is going to be a real TREASURE!
So, for me and cfrizz and many others who do not want to bother with conversion... EPUB is already excellent and is going to get a lot better!