Thread: which format will win?
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Old 02-20-2010, 02:42 PM   #30
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
But epub IS html ... or xhtml ... just arranged in a specific format.

Have you ever opened an epub file -- use winzip or 7zip or .... and take a look.
Ummm... right. So the Adobe PDF epub format is just html??? Think not. Epub is the wrapper and while most *sane* publishers use html, there are other data formats that can be stuffed inside - and don't even get me started on the wide range of DRM one can use on the contents of the epub container!

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