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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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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.