![]() But in effect that’s what Readium will do. The IDPF announcement did not position the Readium initiative as a way to fight Apple (a member of the trade organization, in fact) and Amazon (nonmember) by popularizing the sophisticated typographical capabilities and other wrinkles of pure ePub3. We don’t need Apple’s iBooks-related bastardization of ePub to foster vendor lock-ins. EPub-based standards and software, not the proprietary kind from Apple-which will force you to rely on Apple devices for reading and for file creaction-are what schools and libraries should insist on. Meanwhile I’m rooting for free and easy tools to be available to create files, just like Apple’s iBooks Author. today for the Tools of Change publishing conference. The IDPF was scheduled to show off its new baby at 5 p.m. I’ll see if I can’t get screenshots up today or later this week. Versions already exist as extensions for Chromium browsers in Windows and Mac OS/X-the file is here, and apps will be coming for various OSes including Andorid. But the Readium initiative, announced this morning, is indeed a “big step forward” for the International Digital Publishing Forum, the main e-book industry trade group.Īn open-source demo e-reading app mixes the ePub 3 e-book format, XML, HTML5 standards and the WebKit rendering engine used in many Web browsers.Īided by this “reference implementation, developers will more easily be able to create ePub reading software with “support for video, audio, interactivity, vertical writing and other global language capabilities, improved accessibility, MathML, and styling and layout enhancements” (link added). The name makes me think of uranium and radiation, the proprietary DRM issue remains, and Apple isn’t a supporter. Update: Librar圜ity’s first look at Readium.
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