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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
Uh, no. EPUB3 is a ebook format for a lot of things, like video and sound. If you have no interest on it, no problem, but a different publisher could have different users and different interests. I made EPUB3 with interactive animation, video for specific projects. Apps are another way to publish video, true, but they are more expensive to produce and above all to maintain.
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You are missing the point. Epub3 for interaction and video is failed solution, because we already could do interactive Multimedia before ebooks existed. On every platform.
An ebook needs a compatible reader and compatible hardware. A simple easy to author multimedia app just needs suitable HW. Almost everything EXCEPT dedicated ereaders.
There is no point to promoting epub3 for multimedia because EVERY platform would need the users favourite ereading app updated or a new app and dedicated ereaders mostly are useless for multimedia.
We've had good solutions for multimedia without pretending it's an ebook for more than 25 years and since the beginning of iOS and Android.
Video/audio + text is not a book. It's multimedia. Epub3, even if widely supported in full, which it isn't, is poor and limited compared to ten year old multimedia authoring frameworks.