This struck a chord with me as the coming year promises to be a new beginning for our community which came together in 1999 as
the Open EBook Forum (OEBF) to develop open standards for digital books, reinvented itself in 2005 with a broader remit when it became the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and then found mainstream success with the development of the key EPUB standard.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (formerly
Open eBook Forum.)
Open eBook Forum — ebook standards.
Not exact matches
-LSB-...] Lake brings up some very salient ponts in his
open letter to Kindle and
eBook activists, including this one that's been bothering me since Amazon's snide little
forum post: So -LSB-...]
For technically - inclined readers, Standard
Ebooks conform to a rigorous coding style, are completely
open source, and are hosted on Github, so anyone can contribute corrections or improvements easily and directly without having to deal with baroque
forums or opaque processes.
W3C, together with IDPF (International Digital Publishing
Forum) and BISG (Book Industry Study Group), held a Workshop on Electronic Books and the
Open Web Platform, under the title
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards, on the 11 and 12 February 2013 in New York, USA.
In February 2013 the W3C — the web standards organization — held a two - day summit in New York in concert with the Book Industry Study Group and the International Digital Publishing
Forum entitled «
Ebooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards,» intended to discuss how
open web standards such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG, XML, and RDF could be further integrated into
ebook production.
In the Vendors
Open Forum there was a good discussion about
ebooks and where things are heading.