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Old 01-24-2012, 08:47 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
So Apple, please explain. If you are so proud of the fact that the iBooks application supports EPUB, the most popular format in the world, then why does your own book creation application *NOT* support it (properly)?
Because this is specifically an application to produce multimedia content. ePub 2 (which iBooks already supports) doesn't support this, and it would be a mamoth task to write a fully ePub3 conformant reading app (there are none in existence). Don't think of this as a tool to produce "books" - it's really a replacement for book Apps, which are already iPad-only, and can be sold only through the iTunes AppStore.

This is really being blown up out of all proportion.
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