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No. But the ePub 3 standard has a long list of things that a reader is required to support - far more than Apple need for what they've created iBooks Author for. ie, to create a reader which they could call an ePub 3 reader would have needed a far, far greater investment, with little or no benefit in return.
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You said that Apple made the format because it wanted a format to support interactive multimedia books. But there is epub3 for that already, so your argument doesn't make any sense. |
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01-28-2012, 08:03 AM | #125 |
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Yes, it does; you didn't read my post properly. Apple could not call iBooks an ePub 3 reader unless it supported the mandatory set of features required by the ePub 3 standard. Given that they had no commercial need for this feature set, they had no reason to adhere to the ePub 3 standard for iBooks.
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Let's suppose that Apple had made iBooks Author produce files that were fully ePub 3 compliant. What application is available to read those files? |
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I can repost what I've said, but you could also read the posts (I would say again but you didn't read them in the first place). |
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We seem to be having difficulty communicating here. I don't think there's any point in continuing this discussion.
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Of course there are business reasons to not follow a standard but that is obvious and was not what you seemed to say. |
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Are any of us technically qualified to say whether everything that is available in iBooks Author could be done in valid standard ePub3? You have just stated that as a fact.
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But that is not relevant for the given argument (I should have said might have been able to). The argument seemed to be that just because they could not make a full fledged ePub3 reader they had to make their own format. And that is not a valid argument since it assumes without any evidence that a subset would not have been enough.
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Yes, I agree that Apple could probably have achieved what they wanted with ePub 3. I don't know for certain, but from what I've read about ePub 3, it seems like a reasonable assumption to make. They would then have required a app to read what they had created. They clearly didn't want to produce a full-fledged ePub 3 reader app, because ePub 3 has all sorts of mandatory requirements that were of no interest for the specific commercial purpose they had in mind. So they could not have claimed that what they produced was an ePub 3 reader - it would still be "a reader for iBooks files", not "an ePub 3 reader". So, we have a situation where we have an iBooks reader app, and a tool which produces files which can only be read by that app. In this circumstance, is there any commercial benefit to be gained from using ePub 3 at all? I would argue that there is no benefit, because by using ePub 3, Apple are opening the gates to other people to develop apps which could also read those files, and hence taking sales away from Apple. In this situation, it makes sound commercial sense to make the format proprietary, so that yours is the only platform that can display the books that your tool produces. QED. Amazon have made exactly the same decision with their "KF8" multimedia format. |
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Amazon and Apple are two peas in a pod; creating their own standards to suppress competition.
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