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Originally Posted by Nate the great
You do realize that Apple's fixed layout (and B&N's) came out in 2010 while the fixed layout spec wasn't finalized until 2012, right?
Are you saying that the fixed layout formats weren't Epub in 2011 because they didn't meet a spec which didn't exist? That makes no sense.
Or are you saying that they stopped being Epub once the spec was released? That doesn't make any sense either.
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Yes, that is precisely the point. There was no fixed-layout ePub standard in 2010, therefore, by definition, a fixed-layout spec devised in 2010 is not ePub. Such books have NEVER been ePub books. They were not ePub in 2010, and they are not ePub now. It's nonsensical to say that "they met the ePub spec at the time". They did not, because the ePub spec at the time had no specification for fixed layouts. They
couldn't have met the spec at the time, and they certainly don't meet it now.