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A really elegant submission from Paolo Pellegri.

I love the Part title pages especially:

Thank you!

This includes the Java version available from Google Code EpubCheck as well as the web-based epubcheck hosted by Threepress.
For information on what has changed, see epubcheck 1.2 release candidate details.
Thanks again to George Bina from oXygen for contributing!

Liza and I have long been interested in making ebooks more accessibile. Both Bookworm and Ibis Reader reflect that goal (with limited success—accessibility can almost always be improved). However, our focus has always been on improving the web version of Ibis Reader rather than the installable HTML5 App that many people use on their iPhones, [...]

Major thanks to George Bina from oXygen for contributing these updates.
This release addresses the following date issue: Epubcheck Issue 93.
More importantly, it also updates one of the key components inside epubcheck which provides many of the validation error messages. This new release should return much more useful errors.
Some error message examples:
epubcheck 1.1:
content.opf(10): unfinished element

epubcheck [...]

I’m happy to announce that Threepress has a new developer starting today. Sam Jacoby is a printer, publisher, and programmer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied computer science at Harvard and runs his own fine printing press: Shackman Press.
Sam will be working with us on a number of projects including Ibis Reader and client work. I’m [...]