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Originally Posted by Hitch
It's not. But if you try to upload any of the listed items, with video, Amazon very efficiently simply removes the video or audio elements. Period. And if you ask them, via phone or emaiIn other words, they don't want the brain-damage of having to try to provide tech support for every Tom, Dick and Harriet that is uploading a Word file, trying to create...whatever. I don't blame them one iota.
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I explained myself wrong: I know kindle doesn't support video in kf8, but I didn't know he supported it in kpf.
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As I said, they do not support ALL the varied options available under ePUB3. That doesn't mean that they don't support some aspects of ePUB3. If we're going to say that if they don't support every last bit of it, it's unsupported, fine, then they don't, but they never supported everything that could be done under ePUB2.0 either. Nonetheless, you can submit ePUB3 files with a nav (see 5.2.1 Creating Logical TOC Using a toc nav Element, in the Kindle Publishing Guidelines).
Moreover, at least 4-5x in the KPG, they link to the ePUB3.0 Recommended Specifications (IDPF 3.0 Specification). (And for accessibility guidelines, too, BTW, for ePUB3)
So...given that they repeatedly refer prospective publishers to the IDPF ePUB 3.0 spec, I don't believe that you can argue that they "don't support" ePUB 3.0. Again, if to say that it's supported, they'd have to allow every single aspect under 3.0...no, I don't think that will EVER happen.
Hitch
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Sure, you can send an EPUB3 file, but it seems to me inaccurate say that Amazon "support" EPUB3: kindle supports some of the standards EPUB3 also uses. HTML5, CSS3 or ncx, for example, are not "EPUB3" format, but standards used in EPUB3 too.
I think there are more EPUB3 specifications that Amazon kf8 does not support than the ones it support (javascript, video & audio, media overlay...).
but I understand your point of view, it is about shades of meaning.