What Can Publishers Learn from Digital Comic Books?
Outside North America, CGM has embraced EPUB 3. The standard has been widely adopted in Japan, and is deployed by the largest manga publishers (Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakakan), with a profile of EPUB 3 developed by the Electronic Book Publishers Association of Japan. This includes both fixed-layout and reflowable EPUB 3. France's largest publisher, Hachette, is also distributing significant numbers of fixed-layout comic titles in EPUB 3 form, primarily through the iBookstore.
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.