EPUB3: One File, Many Ebooks

A single EPUB3 file can be used to create an ebook for all e-readers, explained Liz Castro, tech expert and author, at the IDPF conference in New York. […] Hachette’s practice of delivering the same EPUB3 file to all its e-tailers, including Amazon, sets a precedent for the industry, said Castro. If more publishers developed a single viable ebook file, would e-reader systems converge upon a single standard for rendering that file? And in turn, make ebooks a more intelligible medium for the reader?

Source: “EPUB3: One File, Many Ebooks” by Deanna Utroske.

A leap into the future of (digital) reading

By haroldkonickx, January 27, 2015

On the past event Showcases Digital Publishing Toolkit I read the following text: The Canadian mediatheorist Marshall McLuhan said in his famous Playboy interview in 1969: ‘Most people, as I indicated, still cling to what I call the rearview-mirror view of their world. By this I mean to say that because of the invisibility of any environment during the period [...]

Out Now: From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts

By margreet riphagen, December 23, 2014

The last year within the Digital Publishing Toolkit research project, Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Hogeschool Rotterdam together with various designers and developers, collaboratively worked on the EPUB From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts. This Toolkit is meant for everyone working in art and design publishing. No specific expertise of digital [...]

A leap into the future of (digital) reading

Out Now: From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts

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