Thread: Opinions about Apple's announcement today?
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Old 01-25-2012, 11:08 PM   #96
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
For a normal book, yes you could.
For the sort of media-rich, interactive books that iBooks Author is targetting, no you can't. ePub2 does not support the added functionality. ePub3 does not exist in any practical sense, old mobi does not support the added functionality, KF8 is only available for Kindles.
Yeah, but the probability or either EPUB 3 or KF 8 being more widely usable in the future is far higher than for .ibook. Or do you see Apple releasing an ibooks app for android, or linux, or even windows 8?
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