這是一個基本和老問題......
There was a "format war" for ebooks (a "Tower of eBabel" for users)... EPUB won?
Wikipedia says that «... EPUB
format is the most widely supported vendor-independent XML-based
(...) is supported by the largest number of e-Readers (...). The
popularity of Amazon.com's Kindle devices in United States has led
also to the prominence of KF8 and AZW » ... It is a
truth for this "Ebook publishers and readers"
community?
所以,換句話說:
- EPUB is a world-wide consensus? It is the most popular, for ebook readers today? We can put all money in this format?
- And about the "second place", what is the format? (PDF? MOBI?) This second format is still important for ebook-readers? There are reliable and updated statistics? (2010 example, 2009 example)
註釋(編輯)
問題是關於“商業+公共領域”內容。
對於公共圖書館和公共領域內容,感知統計數據正在發生變化 ...人們覺得有一些”標準“(EPUB?)。
我們在商業場景中聽到的(2009年以來的)PDF格式仍然是大多數人選擇的格式,盡管EPUB獲得了令人尊敬的使用,Mobi在第三方中,但沒有可靠的統計數據它。
To join "public domain scenario" with "comercial scenario" perhaps another kind of statistics must be also used: a survey like "ebook users read more comercial or public content?"
世界範圍的統計數據比美國統計數據有明顯不同,但大部分數據來自美國。
關於用EPUB替換舊的和僵硬的PDF,我們聽說“市場”正在等待 HTML5 + CSS3-paged 完成(被終止並提供官方的W3C建議)並鞏固...多少年?
關於參考號碼:每種格式和每種場景下,用戶擁有多少電子書標題(在互聯網上)?
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Public domain and open content:
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PDF: a lot of titles (!!) ... some reliable statistics?
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EPUB: as of March 2014, Project Gutenberg claimed over 45,000 items in its collection (but have no format-download statiscs); SciELO and many other minor public domain e-book projects are also distributing ebooks. Another source of Ebooks, scientific articles: PubMed Central have 3.1 MILLION articles that now (2014) are ditributed also in EPUB format.
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Comercial universe: ...? Amazon dominates?