«The IDPF's track record of success in
developing EPUB standards for the publishing industry will be complemented by W3C's expertise in Web standards that enable accessible rich media.»
IDPF
developed the EPUB standard used globally for accessible ebooks and digital publications.
Smashwords didn't make up the formatting requirements, these requirements are from EPUB3 a document from a world - wide organization that
develops Epub standards
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the industry standards association for text - based digital reflowable books and publications,
developed the EPUB standard in partnership with the publishing industry.
The objective of the EPUB Working Group is to maintain and
develop the EPUB standard in accordance with the desires of the IDPF membership stakeholders.
Not exact matches
EDUPUB is an implementation profile of
ePub3 that is
developed to cater some specific requirements for creating a
standard ePub for education.
«We're
developing new tools based on
EPUB and HTML5 open
standards that will help teachers deeply integrate eBooks into the curriculum and empower school librarians to make targeted collection - development decisions.»
Epub is an open
standard developed by the IDPF.
Readium.org was launched in 2012 by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and supporters in order to
develop a browser - based reference implementation of the
EPUB 3
standard.
The IDPF
develops and maintains the
EPUB content publication
standard that enables the creation and transport of reflowable digital books and other types of content as digital publications that are interoperable between disparate
EPUB - compliant reading devices and applications.
The Kobo company has
developed their own variation on
standard ePubs.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the group responsible for the
ePUB specification chose the launch of TOC today to announce their new ePUB 3.o reader Readium, a «a new open source initiative to develop a comprehensive reference implementation of the IDPF EPUB ® 3 standard.&ra
ePUB specification chose the launch of TOC today to announce their new
ePUB 3.o reader Readium, a «a new open source initiative to develop a comprehensive reference implementation of the IDPF EPUB ® 3 standard.&ra
ePUB 3.o reader Readium, a «a new open source initiative to
develop a comprehensive reference implementation of the IDPF
EPUB ® 3 standard.&ra
EPUB ® 3
standard.»
Unlike the proprietary format Sony had utilized up to that point,
EPUB is a free and open
standard developed by a third - party, the International Digital Publishing Forum.
That ebook was the first such title
developed with Apple to use the
ePub standard while still incorporating all of the interactivity features that the children's ebook publisher is well - known for.
EPUB is supposed to be the e-book
standard file format, but by refusing to adopt it for the Kindle, Amazon is taking one step towards stopping a piracy ecosystem
developing for e-books.
epub standard are sound and give it room to accommodate many of these more sophisticated needs as it
develops.
Originally
developed by Sony in the late 80s, it was quickly abandoned everywhere else on the planet in favor of the global
ePUB standard.
EPUB is an open
standard that has been
developed by a consortium of publishers, technical groups, and librarians.
While new software for eReading devices is being
developed, BB eBooks will continue to focus on the
EPUB 2.0.1
standard.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
develops and maintains the
EPUB ®
standard format for reflowable digital books and other digital publications that are interoperable between disparate reading devices and applications.
Ibis Reader,
developed by Threepress Consulting Inc., uses the
ePub file format, the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), and the HTML5
standard to deliver books to readers on advanced smartphones and any web browser.
EPUB is a free, open e-book
standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
ePub is an open
standard, but iBooks's enhanced capabilities can go above and beyond mere text, as long as book creators can easily
develop titles with those features.
Develop, publish, and maintain common
standards (e.g.
EPUB) relating to electronic publications and promote the successful adoption of these specifications.
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
ePub format was
developed as an industry - wide
standard for eBooks.
We
developed this eBook as a
standard ePub and as a fixed layout
ePub.
The other 4 major online stores don't have a proprietary format or DRM (Apple actually has, but this differentiation is not relevant in this post), and they sell content in the
EPUB file format (the de-facto industry
standard developed by the IDPF organization) and use the Adobe DRM (that is a proprietary DRM file format
developed by Adobe).