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epub has been revised by too many different people resulting in some fragmentation and too many parts of it are marked "optional" that some publishers include and some don't. mostly people who made their own fork include their options and others don't. no one entity has stepped up with authority to try and consolidate into one version let alone put it forth to a standards body.
amazon certainly won't champion epub though they would have the force and money to. Sony has never cared for standards they didn't invent in house. apple is unlikely to do it. the independent publishers all squabble amongst themselves. b&n could, maybe, they are a large enough company, but it certainly isn't an area they've ever been in before.
my fear is google or Microsoft will release yet another format and cause further mess. so far google seems happy with epub, but we'll know more when their bookstore opens later this year. Microsoft has their format which never really took off, but it can't be too long before they try for a bigger slice of the ebookstore pie.
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