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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
My objection to epubcheck is that it gives the impression that using it means your epub is actually guaranteed to work on anything
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Well, with respect Kovid, where does it give that impression? Anyone who is capable of thinking, 'My book passes a number of elementary compliance checks, therefore there's nothing wrong with it,' needs to go back to school and learn basic logic.
There may well be people in the publishing trade who suffer from such a delusion, but you can't blame epubcheck for the fact that some of the people using it are fools.
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Originally Posted by ATimson
If Adobe were willing to foot the bill for creating and supporting any such upgrades, that might happen. But if they're going to force updates, I think we'd instead see device makers rolling their own engines - which is Not A Good Thing.
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That's not going to happen for a variety of reasons, not least of which the legal issues that would surround a 3rd party trying to re-engineer Adobe's DRM decryption. The principal problem is that manufacturers of embedded devices tend not to budget for ongoing support costs - once the box is out the door they turn their attention to the next device because they make money by shifting boxes.
I had hoped that in the wake of Sony's (rather expensive) ePub upgrade program for the PRS500 they would release much cheaper firmware upgrades for the 505-700 as well to keep them up-to-date. So far nothing, but we live in hope.