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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Perhaps "Classic EPUB" will drive "New EPUB" off the bookstore shelves?
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Quite possible.
Even more possible, it might be squeezed out of the market by .ibook, .kepub, .nook, and KF8 epub-derivatives.
ePub is a very weak spec, compliance-wise, and if the very epub "brand" gets tainted by the self-serving publishers' spyware dreams, the walled-garden retailers would have no objection to rebranding it for their own purposes and the <idpf> would have no recourse, even if anybody in that list called their format epub, which they have no need to, anyway.
At this point, the fate of the epub3 spec as even a suggestion-more-than-a-standard probably rests on an open and unambiguous rejection/blocking of outgoing data. But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for <idpf> action. They are too closely aligned with the publishing interests to realize that some "features", however enticing to the content producers, are pure poison to the marketplace.
For reference: CIRCUIT CITY's DIVX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX