By supporting the latest
EPUB3 standard your eBooks can be viewed on a wide range of devices, Mac and PC.
Not exact matches
To inform participants about
EPUB3 standard, and ways to deploy this
standard in their current
eBook publishing programme.
View a movie showing just one example of placed web code inside a CircularFLO
ebook Because the fixed layout
EPUB3 format is based on the latest web
standards of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript it means that other pieces of web code written using these same languages are already compliant with the
standard.
«Publishers can now take advantage of OverDrive's
EPUB3 support to create enhanced
eBooks using open
standards that display children's picture books as the author and publisher intended, as well as to add interactive elements within the page to further engage the reader,» said Alexis Petric - Black, OverDrive's Director of Publisher Services.
The advancement of
ePub3 is taking place at a glacial pace, while the device platform creators such as Apple, Amazon and Google are doing nothing to create cross-platform
standards that will lead to better
eBooks.
But if you read carefully, most of them are focused on an unspecified future where
ePUB3 and HTML5 / CSS3 are the normal
standards of
ebook publishing.
Flipick, part of the Mediawide group of companies, allows publishers to create fixed layout
ebooks directly from InDesign in the
ePub3 standard.
As a publisher of a social studies textbook for our state's history, in addition to the challenges described in this article, one of the biggest challenges we face is there is no
standard way to do business with K - 12 schools because they vary in their technology deployment, how students access the
ebooks (e.g. whether each student receives an account) and selling enhanced
ebooks, note: not
ePub3 or iBooks, in the App Store.
Late last year, the industry group behind the five year old EPUB
standard released its successor,
EPUB3, which will appear in
ebook readers and apps during 2012.
EPUB3 information is officially released on IPDF website to determine the higher
standard of
eBook.
The flexibility of
EPUB3 and HTML5 promise good things for the entire
eBook audience: publishers and designers will have one universal
standard to invest on their development; author and designer collaborating on creating an
eBook that is rich in multimedia content and professional look; readers can trust one ecosystem that takes them to the countless catalogues without looking up different manuals.
HTML5 is undeniably the powerful tool to change the
eBook industry, and the
EPUB3 spec is mostly composed of HTML5 - type
standards.
These
ebooks are
ePub3 standards, for which Overdrive has recently added the capability.
Sell or lend rights - protected
eBooks in PDF, EPUB or
EPUB3, a reflowing industry -
standard format for digital
eBooks.
They support various formats and
standards of
ebooks such as PDF, ePUB2,
ePUB3 (free - flow and fixed - layout), HTML5, SCORM, TinCan API, DAISY Talking Books and Media - Overlay.
Michah Bowers and Patrick Keating from Bluefire Productions and Readium advocated for the wider use of
EPUB3 as the
standard for
ebooks in the browser.
It was born with the mission to establish a
standard for
ebook publishing, and after many useless, unsuccessful and expensive projects (
EPub3, Readium, etc...), it's currently busy with the implementation of an open source License Content Protection
standard named Readium LCP.