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Originally Posted by bigtext
That's a fair point HarryT, but how many years away do you think we are? It a relatively new spec, but there is no reason to think its not in the process of being implemented by various readers out there. Just as HTM5 is slowly coming up to speed in the major browsers EPUB3 will probably be here before we know it. I don't think we are a "long, long" way off which was the context in which I was replying.
All it takes is for someone in the competitive space like a Cool Reader to implement and a lot of their competitors will feel the pressure to get their implementation going.
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Uhm, we might be close to the time when it will be possible to create rich media publications, using standard tools.
Do you believe that, once such a standard-based infrastructure is in place, that we will witness almost instantaneous conversion of all printed material to rich media publications? I still believe that it takes a lot of effort and time to create such content, even if it is all standard based and does not require arcane programming skills to create an app (as opposed to an epub3 rich media publication).