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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Not in five years.
Epub 3.0 might have supplanted ePub 2.0, but there's no way the publishing industry could change to a completely new standard that quickly. We've barely got ePub 2.0 properly adopted and that's after four years (2007-2011), and was built on the older Open eBook standard that was started in 1999!
Even Mobipocket was based on Open eBook in many ways.
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Epub 3.0...sure, we need singing, dancing books. From the earlier notes on ePub 3, it seems that just being a book was too last millennium and we need movies and tunes imbedded into books. If that's what ebooks are destined to become, I WILL go back to hardbacks. I have thousands of hardbacks (yep, they have a separate building) and I have never needed nor required them to sing to me or dance for my amusement. That may be the Achilles heel of the ebook movement. Like other technology, someone thinks they need "improvement" beyond simple readability. A lot of people who are only interested in reading won't go for that. IMHO, books don't need that sort of "improvement." Call me a Luddite but that's the way I feel.