Digital Publishing: Are You Getting the Most Out of EPUB 3?
There’s Lots More
While I’m on the subject of the O’Reilly EPUB 3 Best Practices book on which this article is based, this is a good time to mention that I’ve touched on only a few of the many exciting things you can do with EPUB 3 — and the boatload of useful tips about how to get things right — that that book provides. There are whole chapters, for example, on topics like font embedding and licensing (by O’Reilly’s Adam Witwer), global language support (by Murata Makoto, CTO of the Japan Electronic Publishing Association), interactivity (by Safari’s Liza Daly), as well as media overlays, accessibility, text-to-speech, validation and lots more written by the editor of the EPUB 3 spec, Matt Garrish, who, with IDPF CTO Markus Gylling, ably edited the whole book. (Full disclosure: I wrote the chapter on packaging and metadata. End of commercial.)