Off the top of my head, I'd define a master format as something that can be completely and losslessly converted to other formats as needed.  
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<div>EPUB comes close, but it was ultimately designed as a display format and NOT as a master format.
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<p>On Feb 8, 2012, <strong>Jim Adcock</strong> &lt;jimad@msn.com&gt; wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br />&gt;EPUB is a wonderful display format.  It is NOT a master format.<br /><br />Well, you would have to define what *you* mean by "master format" since clearly your idea of what a "master format" is is different from mine.  Not sure what you mean by a "display format." I can clearly see that PDF is a display format, and HP Printer Code is a display format.<br /><br />By "master format" I means something that can be used to provide 100% of the information needed to create a "real book" <br /><br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />gutvol-d mailing list<br /><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org" target="_blank">gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org</a><br /><a class="parsedLink" href="http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d" target="_blank">http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d</a><br /></blockqu
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