EPUB 3: A Foundation For the Future
Those are the reasons for promoting standards. But the standards aren't going to dictate the kind of experience. That's going to be up to the artists and the inventors and the authors and the publishers to figure out. And I think we're still at the very beginning. Ebooks are kind of like where the web was before there was Facebook and Google and LinkedIn. We're going to have all sorts of great digital books and digital content that we can't predict now any more than we could have predicted Facebook in 1983. All we can hope for is that we make a platform that will enable it.
Denis Wilson was previously content director for Target Marketing, Publishing Executive, and Book Business, as well as the FUSE Media and BRAND United summits. In this role, he analyzed and reported on the fundamental changes affecting the media and marketing industries and aimed to serve content-driven businesses with practical and strategic insight. As a writer, Denis’ work has been published by Fast Company, Rolling Stone, Fortune, and The New York Times.