Thread: Why ePub 3?
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Old 09-18-2017, 09:53 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
The answer is "all of them". Your insistence that the commercial epub3s being sold today are some sort of special hybrid format intended to work on older devices is misguided. They are full-blown epub3 books with an optional ncx file added. The fact that they're primarily text-only reflowable books is neither here nor there. The vast majority of ebooks being sold are text-only, reflowable books.
I was under the impression that the metadata had changed between ePub2 and ePub3. Is this not the case, or is ePub3 metadata a superset of ePub2?
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