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Adequacy of EPUB?
EPUB seems to be the dominating format, but it is hardly adequate for the fiction.
It is based on HTML, which semantical elements are rudimentary and focused around computer manuals (tt, var, code, dd).
HTML mixes up logical and physical layout when creating the simplest fiction elements: letters, titlepages, poems, even chapter titles—they have to be imitated by CSS styles. If you take 5 EPUBs of similar structure, they will have 5 different ways to structure its elements.
Also EPUB cannot handle metadata: there is no support for genres, series, translations, artists...
Shouldn't the editors and publishers to embrace a new format which was designed with eBooks in mind?
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