EPUB Emerges
At Digital Book 2008, much of the focus of the day-long conference was on the industry’s adoption of the .epub (EPUB) digital format—a standardized way of creating e-books so that publishers don’t have to publish proprietary formats to suit each individual e-book retailer. EPUB, a result of work by the IDPF, is the file extension of an XML format designed specifically for reflowable digital books and publications.
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.