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Wednesday, 4th August 2010

A Couple of EPUB Items Including a Primer on the E-Book Format and the Official EPUB Logo

EPUB Format For Papers in Repositories
by: Brian Kelly

From the Article:

If we wish to maximise the take-up of our repositories whilst minimising the effort in processing the files it seems to me that we should explore ways of creating derivative versions from the master source. So rather than uploading a PDF shouldn’t we be uploading the master file and creating a PDF automatically form this resource? And rather than creating an EPUB file, as I have done, shouldn’t the repository software create the EPub file from a HTML version of the file? And whilst I acknowledge that authors may not wish to make their original document (in, say MS Word or Open Office format) available to others and would regard the interoperability aspects of PDF as a feature rather than a flaw there should be nothing to stop the master file being stored in the repository but not openly accessible.

Source: UK Web Focus
Hat Tip and Thanks: Peter Suber

+ EPub Primer: Everything You Need to Know And More

EPUB is a free and open standard developed by a third-party, the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). These devices joined a growing list of eReaders that can read the format, and hundreds of libraries and independent bookstores now offer eBooks that aren’t restricted to a single device.

Source: Laptop Magazine
Hat Tip and Thanks: TeleRead

+ The Official EPUB Logo

Congratulations to Ralph Burkhardt from Stuttgart Germany who submitted the winning design.

Ralph Burkhardt, born in 1980, studied graphic design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd. Since 2010, he runs his own visual communications studio in Stuttgart together with a partner, named burkhardthauke - büro für gestaltung. He also gained recognition as a book author for the famous publisher Hermann Schmidt Mainz.

He worked for agencies like Jung von matt and buero uebele and was responsible for clients such as: Mercedes-Benz, Wella, Bree and several cultural institutions.

"I wanted to create a sign and that is also recognizable as a possible file format graphic (e.g. icons). It should be easy understandable and recognizable."
--Ralph Burkhardt

EPUB Fast Facts (via the IDPF)

".epub" is the file extension of an XML format for reflowable digital books and publications. ".epub" is composed of three open standards, the Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF) and Open Container Format (OCF), produced by the IDPF. ".epub" allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through distribution and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications. The Open eBook Publication Structure or "OEB", originally produced in 1999, is the precursor to OPS.

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