01-27-2010, 02:13 PM | #1 |
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And... the iPad supports ePub
Nuff said.
I don't so much care about this, except maybe this means ePub will become *the* standard. |
01-27-2010, 02:18 PM | #2 |
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01-27-2010, 03:00 PM | #3 |
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Maybe it only supports ePub with proprietary Apple DRM, and won't open DRM-free or any other version.
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Then just download an ePub viewer from the app store. Doesn't Stanza support ePubs?
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01-27-2010, 03:12 PM | #5 |
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01-27-2010, 03:31 PM | #6 |
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Good to know apple had some sense enough not to get yet-an-other-format up there. Now let's hope they don't use drm, or at worse, the same than everyone. |
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01-27-2010, 03:55 PM | #8 |
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The best thing about the iPad with regards to epub?
Adobe Digital Editions stops being the reference renderer. Competition FTW. Maybe Adobe will pick up its game now and fix the five bazillion rendering bugs & quirks. If they don't, they'll just become irrelevant. If you're a publishing house and your epub doesn't look right in iBooks (or whatever they're calling the built-in epub viewer on the iPad), you don't release the book. You work on it until it does, since that's what the vast majority of your customers will be using. Not now, but in six months to a year, definitely. Last edited by Valloric; 01-27-2010 at 04:48 PM. Reason: typo |
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But now that you mentions it. Will apple use something from an other company, or use their own drm and renderer. Actually, maybe they will, then people will have a reason to complain about drm, and maybe we'll get where the music finally went, ditching drm altogether. |
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01-27-2010, 04:17 PM | #12 | |
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Secondly, it would be common sense. If Apple decides not to support free ebooks, it wouldn't make sense to allow Stanza in App Store for iPad. |
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01-27-2010, 04:24 PM | #13 |
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It is going to be interesting to see if Apple brings down the hammer on ebook apps. I agree that they should do so under their own rules, but they have never been very consistent in approving apps.
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I'd be willing to bet hard cash that iBooks uses a WebKit-based, Apple-designed epub renderer. ADE DRM is besides the point. After you decrypt the file, it's still an epub. The iBookStore will use whatever, and it doesn't matter what form of DRM it will be: the content producers will make one epub file and then add whatever DRM system they need on top, Adobe's or Apple's or B&N's or whocares. Point being, the epub "source" will be checked against the iBooks renderer first. It's where the money will be. Last edited by Valloric; 01-27-2010 at 04:58 PM. |
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But then ,if apple have some sense, they'll use ade drm to make tier stuff compatible. And there no telling there is no contractual / technical reasons that forbid using ade drm with an other renderer. |
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