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Originally Posted by murraypaul
And you can do it all at your own pace, and get to market quickly.
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And you can make sure the spec runs on the installed base of hardware.
Say what you will about KF8, it runs on Kindles as far back as the K3.
It wouldn't shock me if the main driver of de-bloating epub3 is to get it running on the Nook STR/Kobo Touch generation of readers. No much use getting epub3 books to market if there are no readers that can handle the books.
The thing to watch for next september is the squealing over dropped features. After all, epub3 became the mess it is because it included everything everybody wanted. To whip it into a viable spec they are going to have to say "no" to a lot of somebodies.
BTW, I know it is too much to ask for, but in the best of all worlds the epub3lite spec would define a single (zero-cost) DRM wrapper for commercial epubs. (If B&N were wise they would turn eReader DRM to a neutral body for zero-cost licensing to all comers.) That way the new spec would define an actual consumer level product. But I'm not holding my breath for an outbreak of sanity.