Digital Publishing: Are You Getting the Most Out of EPUB 3?
Best Practices for Making It Work Right Now
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Bill Kasdorf
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More Than a Website in a Box
Because EPUB is a single file format (.epub), and because it is fundamentally based on modern Web standards (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript), people often think of EPUB 3 as “just a website in a box” that can be viewed offline. Actually, it’s a whole collection of files — content documents, style sheets, fonts, images, media resources, scripts, metadata and more — that is literally zipped up (an .epub is a type of .zip file) for reliable single-file delivery. More importantly, it’s an organized collection of files, governed by a “package file” that documents what the EPUB contains (in the manifest), what a reading system needs to know about the EPUB and everything in it (in the metadata), a default reading order (the spine) and so forth.
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