However, for those of you committed to going it alone on formatting, there is a standard for ebooks, and your manuscript can be checked with the free
epubcheck tool online.
Barnes and Noble has announced today that they have implemented a number of enhancements to
their EPUBCheck tool to help solve common eBook errors.
As part of our ongoing commitment to innovate in digital education, NOOK has added significant functionality to
the EPUBCheck tool that will make it more powerful and manageable for the entire industry,» said Steve Antoch, Senior Software Engineer at NOOK Media.
«NOOK is one of the leading players in the digital education industry and the work they have done on
the EPUBCheck tool is of great value to the industry as a whole,» said Bill McCoy, Executive Director at IDPF.
Not exact matches
The IDPF released a new version of
EPUBCheck, their EPUB validation
tool.
In addition, an output option was added to
EPUBCheck that makes all of the program's output available as data which can be easily consumed by other programs, making the
tool more easily integrated into automated document processing workflows.
In the future, we'll probably have a dedicated EPUB 3 validation
tool (modeled somewhat on
epubcheck, although with quite a few changes, I hope), but I'd like to start working today.
epubcheck is a valuable
tool for anyone working with EPUB documents.
EPUBCHECK -
EPUBCHECK is an EPUB validation
tool designed to automatically determine if an EPUB file is compliant with the EPUB standard.
If you're not so familiar with handling command line
tools and if you are working on Windows, I might suggest our free «EPUB - Checker», which capsules the
epubcheck -
tool in a comfortable GUI.