[emteycz]

Sadly no one really publishes books as HTML.

[svachalek]

Not sure if this is sarcastic but FYI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

(spoiler, most of them are HTML/CSS)

[emteycz]

Most books I saw were epub and pdf. They say epub is some XML, ok. But I don't see how the number of existing HTML based formats is relevant

[barumi]

> They say epub is some XML, ok.

Epub is HTML and CSS bundled in a zip file following a specific directory tree layout and containing a few metadata files.

Epub 3 is HTML5.

Open LibreOffice, create a doc, save it as Epub, and unzip the file. See for yourself.

[emteycz]

That's cool, thanks!

[kevincox]

Aren't the most popular ebook formats based on HTML?

[munk-a]

They do, they just don't end up being called books. I'm a big fan of http://learnyouahaskell.com/

[matt_f]

That's awesome stuff there

[mattnewton]

Lots of books (in major digital bookstores like ibooks) are published as "epub" which is basically html.