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• Hachette Joins Open Source EPUB 3 E-Reader Project

  837 readers PRESS RELEASE: Hachette Livre Group joins the Readium Project. Hachette Livre (including Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK) is joining the Readium Project, a new initiative by the International Digital Publishing Forum. The Readium Project aims to ensure that open source software for handling EPUB® 3 publications is readily available, to accelerate adoption of EPUB 3 as

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  Hachette Joins Readium Project

  6501 readersHachette Livre  – which includes both the Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK — is joining the Readium Project, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s new open source initiative. The move will make Hachette’s eBooks EPUB3 ready. Hachette’s press release explains more: “The Readium Project aims to ensure that open source software for handling EPUB 3 publications is

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  Readium Open Source Initiative Launched to Accelerate EPUB 3 Adoption

  2643 readers From the press release: ACCESS, Adobe, Barnes & Noble, Copia, Google, Kobo/Rakuten, O’Reilly, Samsung, Sony, others support project to advance universal digital publishing format The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) today announced the Readium Project, a new open source initiative to develop a comprehensive reference implementation of the IDPF EPUB® 3 standard. This vision will be achieved

• Consortium of Book Publishing Technology Companies Formally Launch Readium.org Open Source Foundation

  414 readers[Press Release] Readium.org Launches Open Source Foundation, EPUB 3 SDK Project Digital publishing industry leaders fostering a common open source platform for digital publishing The Readium.org open source initiative today announced its evolution into a formal consortium of member companies fostering a community of open source projects for digital publishing. Also unveiled today was a new Readium SDK

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  Readium push from e-book trade group takes on Amazon—and Apple’s bastardized ePub

  3246 readers The name makes me think of uranium and radiation, the proprietary DRM issue remains, and Apple isn’t a supporter. But the Readium initiative, announced this morning, is a still big step forward for the International Digital Publishing Forum, the main e-book industry trade group. A demo reader mixes ePub 3 e-book format, XML, HTML5 standards and the WebKit rendering engine used in many

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  Hachette Launches ePUB Program

  4602 readersBy March 2013, all eBooks published by Hachette will be ePUB. Hachette Digital announced its commitment to ePUB today reporting that Hachette Book Group is releasing 16 titles in ePUB3 from November through March. “HBG’s goal is to get our authors’ works out to consumers as broadly as possible, with the most engaging experience for readers regardless of

• Downloading the Readium Chrome Extension

  3166 readersI am a big fan of what the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is creating with their Readium EPUB reader. Each new version they release is better than the last, and Readium is close to supporting the entire EPUB 3.0 specification. I used Readium in a demos I did at PePcon 2012 in May and

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  Internet Archive digital video library to support HTML5

  2318 readers From a News Release: The Internet Archive, the leading non-profit repository of digital media assets, announced today that it has adopted Kaltura’s Video solution to enable its entire digital video library to seamlessly support both HTML5 and Flash in order to provide viewers an optimal online video experience across all browsers and on any portable device.

• Hachette Launches EPUB3 Program, ‘Committed’ to the Format

  4258 readers [Press Release] HACHETTE BOOK GROUP ANNOUNCES EPUB3 PROGRAM LAUNCH November 16, 2012 – Hachette  Digital today announced the launch of Hachette Book Group’s EPUB3 program.  Hachette Digital is committed to the EPUB3 format, which allows greater flexibility in representing enhanced content, including interactive covers, embedded multimedia and interactivity, pop-up screens for end-notes, and melded audio and text,

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  Explore HTML5 and ePUB3 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

  4979 readersDigital media at the Frankfurt Book Fair. © Peter Hirth / Frankfurter Buchmesse Luc Audrain, head of digitalization support at Hachette Livre, profiled in today’s feature story, will be leading the workshop “HTML 5 and EPUB3: Digital Books Beyond Digitized Text” at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Thursday, October 11. 2:30 – 5:30 Hall 4.C, Room “Entente.”