Adoption of the EPUB format is gaining momentum, as several major publishing houses have already begun transmitting their documents in this manner. Hachette Book Group released EPUB e-books for sale in January, and John Wiley & Sons’ in-house staff recently began producing the company’s branded titles (e.g., “Frommers” and “For Dummies”) in the EPUB format, while its non-branded titles are produced by a third-party conversion house.
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.