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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The thing is, RMDSk (ADE) is most used for reading ePub. The problem is that you won't know the version in use. You cannot assume the latest version or that the person reading your eBook will even be able to update. A lot of Readers in use have a fixed version of RMDSK (because they are no longer supported). So by using an interactive ePub 3 eBook, you will be cutting out a lot of potential customers. I have not seen a bookstore's website that's able to specify that the eBook is ePub 3 and is not ePub 2 compatible. The ePub 3 being made these days is backwards compatible but it sounds like yours would not be.
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Publishing interactive ebook now means cut potential costumers, this is true - btw - because Kindle do not allow to use javascript in kf8, so you can not convert EPUB3 for the Amazon world. But, as publisher and writer, I need to do this because the digital reading is stagnating: on one side we have low-profile ebook that are not "digital books" but "digitalised book". On the other side we have real digital ebook... build as App, or wunderkammer fixed layout. I think publishers have to show that interactive ebooks are a normal form of contemporary narrative and not an exotic extravaganza for tablet.
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