This post by Mike Cane originally appeared on his Mike Cane’s xBlog on 4/1/14.
L’Europe va mettre fin aux formats propriétaires pour les livres numériques
Europe will put an end to proprietary formats for digital books
While the European Parliament will be renewed in May, the European Commission, which will also be fully reconstructed by the end of the year, embarks on a surprising activism: she finally grabs the file interoperability digital books, with the aim of forcing retailers using proprietary formats to end these systems.
Amazon and Apple, the two market leaders, are directly targeted. Currently, a digital book bought on Amazon.fr can only be read on the Kindle, the e-tailer reading lamp, or one of its applications. Reading lamp which does not accept the open format ePub. It is the same with the iBook Store, Apple’s digital library, which does not allow the reading on the terminals of the Apple brand.
Assuming this isn’t an April Fool’s item, what will happen?
After Amazon and Apple fail with their bribes lobbying, I think:
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