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Old 06-26-2013, 03:16 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
So who here actually, wants JS, audio, video and other worthless things like that in your eBooks? I don't and I've read a lot saying no way.

ePub3 could have been adopted already if the standards committee had not added all this extra junk to it.
Well, universities that are looking to distribute their textbooks (homegrown) to students as ebooks, at least.

The department at the institution I work at has been slowly shifting away from traditional models of textbook publishing/distribution. A few of our textbooks are in ePub and Mobi format and have embedded video files that explain concepts at different parts of the book. I think including videos and other media is something that students appreciate; I was a student not too long ago, and I know I would have appreciated it.

Our institution considered using iBooks Author to create/distribute the textbooks because of its video/audio support (among other features), but eventually opted for just creating ePub to make the publications more accessible to a wider range of students. I'm pretty sure that, if not for ePub also supporting audio/video, however, we would've ended up going with iBooks Author.

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