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.
Not exact matches
EPUB became an official
standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the
older Open eBook
standard.
They are a new frontier, but it looks a lot like the
old web frontier, with HTML, CSS, and XML underpinning the main ebook
standard,
ePub.
Epub is an
old international
standard while the PDF files are only readable through Adobe's Digital Editions software.
The inclusion of the industry
standard EPUB format and Adobes PDF file format of free e-books, not forgetting the
old favorites like.
While an
ePub file can be designed in a way that covers all of the
ePub - supporting devices and platforms (Apple, B&N, Google, Kobo, and Sony), creating beautiful KF8 files that are backwards compatible with
older Kindle devices and software apps requires specific knowledge and skills that are not all needed for
standard ePub workflows.
Sony's PRS - 505 ebook reader can now read ebooks produced using the open
ePub format giving this year -
old, industry - endorsed
standard a major boost.
Although OEB and Mobipocket are both a bit
old and limited (
EPUB is the new
standard for e-books), the format is still popular for various reasons, including Amazon's decision to use Mobipocket as the core format for the Kindle and the fact that Mobipocket Reader is available on a very large selection of devices.
EPUB became the formal
standard of IDPF on September, 2007 to displace the
old open eBook
standard.