Tag Archive for 'ePub Format'

What image formats are suitable for ePub?

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Mike Cook
on June 17, 2008
in Tutorials/Help
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A question posted over on the ePub Community Group was asking what image formats are suitable for use in ePub.

As Jon Noring replied, the OPS 2.0 Specifiaction says that an OPS (ePub) Reading System must support the GIF, PNG, JPEG and SVG image formats.

These are pretty standard formats to be supported so I don’t see any problems with rendering these. But I do have some concerns regarding SVG - these of course stem form having absolutely no clue at all about the format!

Still, I am wondering if there will be any issues when rendering SVG, akin perhaps, to what we had during the browser wars.

Is there anyone out there who understands SVG and can shed some light on this matter?

HarperCollins UK to release their titles in the ePub format

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Mike Cook
on April 25, 2008
in ePub Blog
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Hot on the heels of Penguin’s announcement, HarperCollins UK now have plans to release their titles in both print and eBook format this coming September. Thanks to Graeme Neil’s article over at theBookseller.com for uncovering this excellent piece of news.

According to his article, Victoria Barnsley, HC UK C.E.O., says that HC is also looking in to clearing the rights to release their 2,500 title back catalogue, ready for this autumn.

If you’ve had any doubts that ePub will not become an eBook standard then you should take notes of these movements within the industry - the ePub format is certainly getting some influential backing. It looks to me that the (book as well as music) industry is finally listening to its consumers? Let’s hope the trend continues!

It’s great that publishers are moving over to the ePub format but perhaps we can also help it along. Why not start converting public domain titles to the ePub format, this will certainly encourage reader applications to written and the more readers there are, the more people will want ePub books!

I myself am working toward creating conversion scripts to create ePub files - I’ll talk more about this project in the future.

Keep your eyes on epubbooks.com as I’ll be trying to bring together more resources and tutorials to help you in creating ePub documents.