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So get the programs/apps updated to correctly handle ePub 3 and you will be good to go. Last edited by JSWolf; 11-28-2020 at 06:30 PM. |
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11-28-2020, 09:48 PM | #17 |
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Amazon has something similar-ish to this called "Kindle in Motion" but it doesn't work on eInk kindles for obvious reasons
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Amen. But to be honest I don't think this is gonna happen in short time. The W3C project is walking in mud, Adobe software is a mess of bug with no update by years, Apple changes the EPUB3 format how and when he wants (the linear=no support is something like a joke), and independent developers have no economic resources and professionalism to have a serious EPUB3 support (I think Calibre - for example- still does not support video and have a disastrous management of javascript variables). And, as I wrote somewhere, the EPUB3 format is something similar to the Miyazaki's God Warrior in Nausicaa: a Frankenstain monster made of different organs and lacking of basic tool for real digital publishing. When he tries to conquer the world, he collapses over himself. It is absurd that a media page-based has no statement or selectors to handle virtual pages for example.
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11-29-2020, 11:14 AM | #20 | |
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An ebook needs a compatible reader and compatible hardware. A simple easy to author multimedia app just needs suitable HW. Almost everything EXCEPT dedicated ereaders. There is no point to promoting epub3 for multimedia because EVERY platform would need the users favourite ereading app updated or a new app and dedicated ereaders mostly are useless for multimedia. We've had good solutions for multimedia without pretending it's an ebook for more than 25 years and since the beginning of iOS and Android. Video/audio + text is not a book. It's multimedia. Epub3, even if widely supported in full, which it isn't, is poor and limited compared to ten year old multimedia authoring frameworks. |
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11-29-2020, 03:26 PM | #22 | |
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If a customer pays you to produce content with which to distribute videos to a generalist and cross-platform audience, tablets, smartphones, desktops, with a textual fallback for ebook readers, an EPUB3 is a more than respectable and sustainable solution. IMHO. f. |
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11-29-2020, 08:59 PM | #24 | |
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Having played with both dedicated applications and epub3 for displaying audio and video content on iOS/iPadOS, Mac OS, Android, Chromebooks, Windows and Linux devices, I have to say that there is no good solution where good is defined as works out of the box on all supported devices. |
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11-30-2020, 07:11 AM | #25 |
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A (kind of) epub3 that works in Apple Books and Google Play Books is enough. Recommending an app for mobile devices is just nonsense.
About non-mobile OSes: thorium works in windows, mac and linux. It should be able to provide a wide range support for epub3 features that are not used elsewhere (like fixed layout epubs or multimedia). |
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It played the videos, though, but without subtitles. (Calibre E-Book viewer supports VTT subtitles but not TTML subtitles.) |
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Production cost, the second time, will be the same as epub3. Production cost app vs epub 3 may be similar the first time. Or lower with an app. Distribution cost is the same. Works for more users/customers/platforms Unlike epub3 an app needs no host specialist reading app. More flexibility with an app. |
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