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Month: May, 2011

Subtitles in EPUB 3

Update: I should have been clearer that the “bare” use of subtitle without referencing a scheme is really suboptimal. Using already-defined properties/definitions and referencing them explicitly (like the ONIX codelist example below) is a much better technique, but I did not come up with a compelling property for subtitle, hence the call for better options. [...]

Covers in EPUB 3

Now that EPUB 3 is an IDPF Proposed Specification it seems like a good time to update some of our EPUB blog posts. One of the most popular was Best practices in ePub cover images, which helped clarify how to include a cover image for most ebook readers. While cover image markup wasn’t specified in EPUB, I’m happy to report that EPUB 3 clearly explains how to include a dedicated cover image.