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Originally Posted by leebase
Make up your mind. Either Apple's new format isn't "all that" and readily reverse engineered....or it's a threat to publishing as we know and love it (or at least love to hate it).
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Whether it is or not is beside the point. There should have been no need to reverse engineer it. That is the anti-social behavior by Apple that I am complaining about. To put it another way, a thief that steals $10 is no less a thief than one that steals $1000. A less competent thief, certainly, but still a thief.
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Apple DID innovate the ePub standard...but just didn't CALL the results "ePub". If they had, folks would have been crying FOUL. "Apple is unilaterally changing ePub....".
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No, they did not. Your endlessly repeating that they did is not going to make it so. They simply chose to replicate the features already in epub 3 in an obfuscated, proprieatry format.
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We don't know what, if any, of the iBooks features will be submitted to ePub. We do know that Apple wasn't about to broadcast it's products plans early by submitting their changes to the ePub committee before launching their product.
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Ah so now you've switched from the "boys will be boys" defence to the "he's only borrowing it, he'll put it back in the future" defence. There was absolutely nothing preventing them from submitting their changes to the the IDPF on the day they made the annnouncement, or the day after or even two days after. Or even published a simple two line statement saying that we support the epub standard and are planning to submit our changes to the IDPF.
And for the rest of your argument, you seem to be arguing with someone else. I state that
Apple is damaging the ebook ecosystem by fragmenting it for no good reason.
If you wish, to argue against that statement, do so, but please leave out irrelevancies about iBook Author, or whether anyone else is producing epub3, or how the iPad is good for society or how boys will be boys or how in some indeterminate future ibook will become a standard replacing epub 3 or how it is easy to convert from ibook to epub3.