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Demystifying ePub3

The World's Greatest Book Posted on March 13, 2012 by Dave BrickerMarch 20, 2012

idpf-epub3The new ePub3 format is talked about a great deal on the Internet, but aside from a short list of new features and capabilities, frustratingly little information is actually given about it. eReader manufacturers have barely begun to implement fragments of the new spec and they aren’t making  promises about when upgrades will arrive, presumably because they don’t want to encourage consumers to hold out for new models.

Though this video is almost a year old, it does provide useful insight into the vision of the International Digital Publishing Forum (the organization that created and continues to work on the ePub specification). In the video, Bill McCoy, Executive Director of the IDPF, presents an only-slightly-technical perspective on ePub3 with demonstrations of a few of its capabilities.

In response to this older video, Bill McCoy suggested I share the following which was posted much more recently.

Tagged dynamic layout, eBook typography, eBooks, ePub, epub3, eReaders, IDPF, KF8, kindle, liquid layout

iBooks Author – Apple Introduces Easy eBooks with One Big Condition

The World's Greatest Book Posted on January 20, 2012 by Dave BrickerNovember 18, 2013

iBooks-Author LogoIBooks Author is Apple’s new eBook publishing application, a drag-and-drop tool that allows publishers to create interactive books without having to write code.

From Apple: Available free on the Mac App store, iBooks Author is an amazing new app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.

Notwithstanding the fact that books have hardly failed to bring content to life these past five centuries since the introduction of the printing press, iBooks-Author looks pretty slick. However, Apple’s latest offering comes with sticky licensing restrictions that are unprecedented in the software industry.

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Tagged apple, eBooks, ePub, epub3, iBook, iBooks Author, iBookstore, interactive books, interactive eBooks, interactive textbooks, KF8
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