New Features Bulk metadata download: Allow reviewing of the downloaded metadata before it is applied FB2 Output: Write ISBN, pubdate, tags and publisher metadata when creating fb2 files Bug Fixes When reading metadata from EPUB 3 files, use the first… Read More

In our madcap rush to digitize the book we’ve been all too willing to attempt both to recreate the physical book experience in the digital realm and to just as quickly discard any feature of physical books that proved too… Read More

[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 Read More

Today in Paris Readium.org launched its new open EPUB 3 SDK Project and has formalized a strong and varied consortium of international players to support it.… Read More

Categories: QuarkXPressTags: extNewsletterCBEPUB 3 Best Practices……, by Matt Garrish, guides you through the most advanced features of EPUB 3 for digital books. For example: global language support; embedded multimedia; scripted and interactive content; advanced metadata; and fixed and Read More

Episode 91 News Hachette to support ePub 3 Kobo to fully support EPUB 3 Launches Kobo launches in Brazil So does Amazon And Google Amazon also launched in Canada. Google launched in Russia Nook going global Nook Simple Touch price… Read More

I love this comment from Dave Bricker regarding an earlier post, EPUB 3 facts and forecasts: Ebook vendors enjoy a closed loop ecosystem. They have millions of reader/customers who are satisfied with EPUB 2 display capabilities and devices. Amazon readers,… Read More

The IDPF released a new version of EPUBCheck, their EPUB validation tool. This version continues to validate both EPUB 2.0.1 and EPUB 3.0. The new verison is 3.0-RC-1. You can download the code.google.com here. I have also uploaded the file… Read More

This weekend, Nate Hoffelder (@thDigitalReader) of The Digital Reader posted “iBooks 3.0 Coming Next Week – Adds More Support for Epub3” tracking clues that the Apple press event on October 23 will not only include an announcement of the iPad… Read More

In an article posted a few days ago I shared the first part of an email exchange between Bill McCoy of the IDPF and Sanders Kleinfeld of O’Reilly. They were debating the merits of HTML5 and EPUB 3. In the… Read More

One of the benefits of working on TOC is that I get to see some of the behind-the-scenes industry debates that take place via email. Since it’s “formats” month here in TOC-land I thought it would be fun to share… Read More

Digital 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… Read More

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), in a new Policy Statement, gave its support to EPUB 3 as the preferred global standard for multimedia publishing. The statement endorses EPUB 3 as the accepted and preferred standard for representing, packaging, and… Read More

Episode 81 News ePub 3 support grid updated Indesign to HTML5 (Start kicking) InDesign and the funky list export Nook Color/Tablet get Maps iBookstore comes to Latin America. Teleread going through some changes. Dan Eldridge starts as new Editor-in-Chief Chris… Read More