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Old 01-31-2018, 09:40 AM   #31
KevinH
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Yes, wpub/epub4 is just a "packaged web app" and is meant for serving ebooks from the web. It is nothing like an epub in any way. Sad really.

Do ebook publishers really want the "web app in a box"?

Looking back the IDPF made a huge mistake ignoring backwards compatibility when moving from epub2 to epub3, and then confusing b2b metadata needs of its members/the book industry with b2c consumer metadata needs.

It seems the Japanese book industry is a big user of refines in metadata even though they were a huge mistake and so now can not be removed in favour of more sane metadata in the opf.
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