Buyer's Guide: The State of Ebooks in 2014
As ebooks emerge from their infancy, new digital publishing trends take hold.
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Bill Kasdorf
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The Emerging Consensus on Standards
The slow and fragmentary implementation of EPUB 3 established an unfortunate "wait and see" attitude among publishers. Well, stop waiting and start seeing: EPUB 3 works for most books on most of the leading ebook readers and platforms. Behind this is a long-awaited consensus on the underlying technologies that ebook technologies are built on. This foundation is enabling continual innovation based on open standards and interoperability. As mentioned above, the vast majority of ebook readers and systems are now based on EPUB 3. And EPUB itself is based on the Open Web Platform, the 100-some standards (HTML, XML, CSS, SVG, MathML, etc.) that are governed by the W3C.
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