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June 8, 2011

IDPF Digital Book/BEA 2011: Highly-Accessible Interactive EPUB

Slides from my talk on creating accessible interactive ebooks with EPUB 3 are available:
Accessible interactive books with EPUB 3
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May 26, 2011

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.

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January 3, 2011

A simpler EPUB Linking proposal

Following my post Developing an EPUB Linking specification a couple of months ago, a subset of the EPUB3 Working Group formed and has been actively researching and discussing the problem of EPUB to EPUB linking and EPUB identifiers in general. Based on feedback from others inside and outside that group, I’ve decided that many aspects [...]

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June 22, 2010

Practical Interactivity and Shaping the Future of EPUB

The IDPF kicked off the next revision of EPUB with two days of face-to-face meetings in New York last week. I came away from the (lively, well-attended) meetings feeling very optimistic about the work ahead of us, as there was a humbling range of backgrounds and experience present in the room. That said, many of [...]

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