Thread: which format will win?
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Old 02-20-2010, 11:24 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks View Post

I'm pretty sure 5, 10, maybe even 20 years from now, people will still be reading HTML. I don't see Epub having that staying power.
ePub is HTML. It's just a bunch of HTML files in a ZIP wrapper.

HTML is a inefficient format for an ebook, because a book will typically consist of a whole bunch of files - HTML files, images, a table of contents, etc. An ePub book just packages all those up into a ZIP file.

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HTML books in Zip folders nicely resolve things like "multi-media" books with lots of photos, etc.
That's exactly what an ePub book is. I'm slightly confused about why you appear to be criticizing ePub on the one hand, and on the other, proposing a "solution" which is ePub!
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