An Analysis of Epub3: "Website in a box," and why that's bad
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Building a cross-reader ePub today is faintly reminiscent of building a cross-browser website in the early 2000's. Sounds like the complexity added by ePub3 will only make it worse.
Not to mention that when I'm reading a book, I want it to be a book--otherwise I'd go read a website!