Comments on: ‘Hachette Book Group USA is First to Provide its eBook Content in New Universal .epub Format’ http://www.teleread.org/2007/10/26/hachette-book-group-usa-is-first-to-provide-its-ebook-content-in-new-universal-epub-format/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:37:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hadrien http://www.teleread.org/2007/10/26/hachette-book-group-usa-is-first-to-provide-its-ebook-content-in-new-universal-epub-format/comment-page-1/#comment-592907 Hadrien Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:30:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7384#comment-592907 Nice move, although I don't understand why Hachette is only planning this for the US and not in France (Hachette is a french company). They also said that they would sell their e-books at the same price than their p-books. A standard format is a step in the right direction, but DRM-less files and a lower price would also help e-books. Nice move, although I don’t understand why Hachette is only planning this for the US and not in France (Hachette is a french company).

They also said that they would sell their e-books at the same price than their p-books.

A standard format is a step in the right direction, but DRM-less files and a lower price would also help e-books.

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