Re:IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C
by msbarnett on Monday February 06, 2017 @02:22PM
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> Readers complain that ebooks cost too much, and then readers complain that publishers don't want to spend money on technical stuff.
To be clear, I'm complaining that the standard overcomplicated certain desirable feature to the point where publishers would have to spend money on technical stuff, when they shouldn't have to.
I fully get why publishers don't want to have to engage in fiddly, expensive bespoke development per-title.
But some of the problem is that there's not a lot of payoff for technical development, because only some platforms will support it. The Kindle doesn't handle Javascript or math at all, has very poor support for tables, SVG art, and video. So there's half your market gone right there.