To me this is the latest in a series of slights to the reading and digital publishing community:
- without Apple, there would be no consumer-unfriendly Agency model for ebooks
- another DRM island, like we needed another one
- they are inventing their own extensions of ePub, some of which (e.g. fixed page layout) will undoubtedly not make it into the ePub standard. We don't need ePub to become another mess like HTML standards have been up to this point.
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