[LINK] Ebooks for government reports?

[Pilcher, Fred]

Tom wrote:

> Senator Lundy attended the event and tweeted in reply: "With so much
> govt information online, Tom's talk makes me wonder about the merit of
> publishing public info in ebook formats too".
> 
> Ebooks could be a good way to convince the Australian Government to
use
> accessible and efficient web formats for reports instead of the poorly
> formatted PDF files used now.
> 
> The EPUB e-book format (used by the Apple iPad) is just web pages with
> some XML metadata in a Zip file. The ebook chapters could also be
> provided as accessible, smart phone compatible web pages.

What's the advantage of EPUB or its ilk over HTML? Is it a proprietary
format? Can't e-book readers read HTML?
 
Fred 
  
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