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Originally Posted by KevinH
Do ebook publishers really want the "web app in a box"?
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Some do, sure. But the big draw (as I see it) isn’t in the bells-and-whistles that modern HTML+CSS+JS enables—I expect Amazon to keep saying, “we’ll support this and no more,” and everyone targeting that subset of features—but in the simplicity of specification: “Use standard web tech, package it in this simple manner, and you’re done,” or for e-readers, “Unpack this simple package format and use a standard browser widget.”
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Originally Posted by KevinH
It seems the Japanese book industry is a big user of refines in metadata even though they were a huge mistake and so now can not be removed in favour of more sane metadata in the opf.
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I can’t find where I’ve seen what the Japanese publishers are using refines for, but it is the only way currently offered to deal with hierarchically-organized metadata. Maybe a simple JSON-based format could afford them what they’re asking for?