The Digital Library Federation (DLF), a consortium of libraries and related agencies in support of the use of electronic-information technologies, has also gotten behind EPUB. Peter Brantley, DLF’s executive director, says, “It is my belief that a transition to more interactive, reflowable content formats, such as the IDPF’s EPUB format, is almost inevitable.” He adds that the adoption of such a format provides a number of advantages including a wider range of end-user control (from font size to spoken text services) and the ability for text formats to be tethered to devices such as the Kindle or iPhone, while being maintained on central servers.
Laura Dawson is CEO of Numerical Gurus, LLC, consulting company providing services to the information, librarym and book industries. Dawson has consulted to numerous organizations in these verticals, primarily focusing on solving problems related to metadata, identifiers, Linked Data, semantic web applications, and structured content.