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Originally Posted by HarryT
So, we have a situation where we have an iBooks reader app, and a tool which produces files which can only be read by that app.
In this circumstance, is there any commercial benefit to be gained from using ePub 3 at all? I would argue that there is no benefit, because by using ePub 3, Apple are opening the gates to other people to develop apps which could also read those files, and hence taking sales away from Apple. In this situation, it makes sound commercial sense to make the format proprietary, so that yours is the only platform that can display the books that your tool produces.
QED.
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I'm confused. You appear to be saying that, in your opinion, Apple delibrately chose not to use a subset of epub 3, so as to prevent other people from interoperating with their .ibook format. In other words, they delibrately chose to fragment the ebook space, for their selfish benefit. This is precisely the behavior I and others are complaining about. I somehow doubt that's what you intended the QED to prove.
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Amazon have made exactly the same decision with their "KF8" multimedia format.
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Yes, and they are equally to blame for making a choice that harms the ebook community at large, for their selfish, short term gain. Something I have said when KF8 was first announced.