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Originally Posted by Hitch
@Wolfie:
Nope, you are 100% correct. iBooks ePUB3 isn't compatible with iBooks on first-gen iPads. As usual, Apple has not only cavalierly abandoned the first-gen tablet, but was instrumental in driving the ePUB3 bus in such a way that the books made with it (which not only are giant wastes of bandwidth full of pretty-shiny things) won't work on their own device. Given that they were the prime mover in ePUB3, and how it's come out (utterly idiotically, I'd add; there wasn't a damn thing wrong with the NCX, nor how it worked; the point of this whole new nav element scheme makes NO sense), it's just typical Apple.
I mean, at least, with Amazon, whilst you have different devices, you CAN design reasonably graceful fallbacks. Not so with something like this--anyone with a first-gen either a) shan't be able to buy the book, or b) won't have the book work properly on their device. What's sensible about that?
Hitch
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What's also wrong is that if you ave a 1st gen iPad and you go to the iBooksstore to buy a book, you have no idea if it will work or not because Apple doesn't label them as to what version you need. Even more stupidity.