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Originally Posted by Ankh
Agreed. In addition, the number of books compared to the time to create an app like this for each of them... There will be no threat for a long, long time.
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I don't know why a separate app has to be created at all.
EPUB3 was designed with multimedia books in mind. So instead of having everyone write multimedia book apps from scratch they can simply write to an open standard that uses technologies like html5, css, canvas, and javascript. These are universal and accessible technologies with a lot of tool support. There is no need to learn a whole other skill set like objective C or Java in order to create an app to handle content like this. The only useful purpose of such apps is to maybe allow for some level of customization that can't be handled by EPUB3 which is hard to imagine. More likely they are just another lock you in to my walled garden strategy so more of your money ends up in their pockets.