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2 January 2010

[…] It will most likely be based on web technologies, much like the iTunes LP format. Best case (but also the least likely), it’ll be a slightly incompatible extension of the ePub standard. Worst case (and most likely), it’ll be an entirely new format. Either way, like iTunes LP, the format will be publicly documented and there’ll be an SDK available to all interested parties…eventually.

I do hope that the (if it happens) format Apple uses for ebooks and emagazines (yuck – can’t think of what else to call them though) is HTML based. It does beg the question though of what the difference between a emagazine and a website is though – why would anyone buy one? I’m interested to see what Apple’s answer to that one is…

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2 January 2010