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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
It's simple, what Apple should have done is:
1) Used EPUB 3
or
2) If using EPUB 3 was not possible because it lacked some functionality (which I highly doubt, by the way)
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I strongly suspect the opposite: that ePub 3 does too much. There is no ePub 3 viewer in existence at the current time. Apple simply wanted a format to support interactive multimedia books - the kind of thing that's currently done with book Apps. ePub 3 would have been an "over the top" solution for this. I know you'll disagree, but I think they've taken the right approach here. To have only implemented a small subset of ePub 3 features, and then to have claimed that iBooks was an ePub 3 viewer would have been vastly more misleading than the solution they've adopted, which is to make no claim that these files are ePub files.