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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
In all fairness, Amazon has no reason to comply with any epub specs. They neither sell them in their store nor support the format on their devices (or in their apps). They will happily accept epubs (2 or 3) as valid source-code (as well as various other html/css/oebps representations of content) for compiled Kindlebooks, though.
They simply have no dog in the epub-spec-compliance hunt in my opinion. That's all on Kobo/Nook/iBooks/Sony/Adobe/etc's heads.
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I would disagree. Amazon accepts ePub as the source file for conversion and thus have a stake in the standard. They even define the specific specifications that they support. It is exactly like ePub version 1 (Called OEB in our wiki). All of the players following that standard used it only for the source and then compiled it into the reading file. Amazon has done exactly the same thing for KF8. It is simply a binary compiled form for an ePub source file. To say that they have no stake is like saying that someone who releases a executable written in "C" has no stake in the "C" standard.
Having said that Amazon is also tinkering with some sort of JSON standard as well for iOS version of its reader.
Dale