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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Then you should be able to provide eBooks in a non-restricted format just as easily as you can in PDF.
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We can and we will be supporting Open Ebook in the future. But for us, HTML/XML is not the source.
Why ?
Because if we only used HTML/XML as the source, we wouldn't have any markups dividing the book correctly. A book is not strictly presentation, there's also semantic information in it. HTML is not the nexus for e-book: it lacks some very valuable information.
We must not represent a chapter as something slightly bolder and on the center of the page, in what would be the source of all those e-books formats. You don't need to store a TOC in the source, you can easily create a TOC if you have the right markup for parts/chapters/sections.
The same thing could be said for footnotes too.
Restrictions are not purely based on DRM or reflowable capabilities.