Standards for eBooks Emerging
Category: Digital Publishing
In a recent press release from IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) comes this news:
"Major software companies and device manufacturers have announced plans to support new electronic book standards developed within the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). The companies will support these standards in their next generation software and devices, alleviating many of the previous file interoperability and production issues affecting the eBook industry and its customers."
The IDPF, formerly the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), according to their website "is the trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry." The group welcomes membership from book, magazine, journal and newspaper publishers, booksellers, software developers, authors, and other groups interested in digital reading.
This news will most certainly impact the future of traditional publishing - which way the individual publishing houses will go with it remains to be seen.
Learn more about the proposed specifications for the standardization as well as those being set for the 'containers' (both abstract and physical) that will be used to store, access, and read eBooks in this PDF from the IDPF website.
Read the full press release here.
"Major software companies and device manufacturers have announced plans to support new electronic book standards developed within the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). The companies will support these standards in their next generation software and devices, alleviating many of the previous file interoperability and production issues affecting the eBook industry and its customers."
The IDPF, formerly the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), according to their website "is the trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry." The group welcomes membership from book, magazine, journal and newspaper publishers, booksellers, software developers, authors, and other groups interested in digital reading.
This news will most certainly impact the future of traditional publishing - which way the individual publishing houses will go with it remains to be seen.
Learn more about the proposed specifications for the standardization as well as those being set for the 'containers' (both abstract and physical) that will be used to store, access, and read eBooks in this PDF from the IDPF website.
Read the full press release here.
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