What Can Publishers Learn from Digital Comic Books?
Cosmic Ray Gun currently uses EPUB 2, although custom features requested by customers will make the change to EPUB 3 inevitable. "EPUB 3 is based on HTML5 whereas EPUB 2 supported XHTML," Garza noted. "Kids' books and any book that requires interactive and multimedia will benefit the most from EPUB 3 because it's based on HTML5—making it possible to create better features."
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.