So what is next then? What does the future look like for digital publications? People who have been in this space for a while know we have asked this question a lot. If you were waiting for any reason to make the switch, please, please do it now. The standard is stable and any more substantial changes to it at this point would get us into trouble with backwards compatibility. EPUB 3.3 looks very different from it’s predecessors, all the while maintaining that very important backwards compatibility and support for accessibility.ĮPUB 3.3 will also very likely be the last version of EPUB 3. We’ve also made a number of changes in terms of clarifying requirements for certain features, and descoping others. What we have achieved is a massive overhaul of how the standard is structured, to facilitate better understanding of what it contains.
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Our hopes were to do some modernization, bring EPUB to at least 2015 with the addition of full HTML 5 support, possibly add some new features. The publishing industry, particularly in the trade space, can also be resistant or unsure of change, leaving us with publishers we’re still convincing to adopt “new” technologies like EPUB 3 - which was first introduced in 2011.
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Physical books do not stop working because the software updates and ebooks can’t stop working either.
Our constraints were not surprising, EPUB has a very hard requirement for backwards compatibility. The process of developing EPUB 3.3 was an interesting one, because of the conflict between our constraints and our dreams for the format. Wendy Reid, Accessibility and Standards Lead at Kobo and Joint Chair of the EPUB 3 Working Group at W3C asks what is next for the standard and for digital publishing? The EPUB 3 Working Group is an integral part of the activities undertaken at W3C. EPUB is the industry standard for digital publications and is based on open technologies used on the Open Web Platform.
EPUB defines a means of representing, packaging and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content, including HTML5, CSS, SVG and other resources, for distribution in a single-file format. It remains the most accessible publishing option for content creation and this, it’s final iteration, offers the most accessible experience for print disabled readers.Īs our readers are probably aware, the EPUB specification is a distribution and interchange format standard for digital publications and documents. EPUB 3.3 is nearing publication and, as such, is mostly fixed in what it will contain.
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