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Originally Posted by HarryT
You say that as if "championing multimedia ebooks" was a bad thing. Apple had development tools to allow people to easily create good multimedia books, and a free viewing app (iBooks) to display them long before any of the other players in the market did, and iBooks was also the first mainstream reading app to support ePub3.
I don't personally use iBooks, because I prefer to remove DRM from the books I buy, but Apple really can't be faulted for their innovation in supporting such things as ePub3.
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While multimedia ebooks may not be intrinsically evil, that still doesn't mean they are a particularly important objective. The IDPF should've focused on fixing the current standards, rather than introducing something few need.
But Apple needed something stylishly cool. And the world turned.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's also the reading app with the best ePub3 support of any.
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Which has no meaning for the vast majority of consumers and ebooks.
I would (and do) happily trade flashy gimcrackery for something that works in a mildly consistent manner.