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Richard Kwan: EPUB in Practice, My Experience of Introducing EPUB at Penguin
- 11. Controls IDPF EPUB Specs Publisher requirements - consistency - uniqueness e.g. EPC, file sizes, filenaming, metadata, fonts, TOC, content types etc New requirements? e.g. enhanced, apps etc OPS, OPF, OCF
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- Background for the business and to ebooks. Global Programme, covering all territories but I’ll mainly focus on the UK
- - not too tecchy just describing the approach. -in a typical consultancy way I may ask more questions than provide answers... background - a very exciting time, gone from a void to an embryonic but real business. talk about wider external market environment, critical mass of external and internal events. - high level publishing workflow - Invite questions ongoing
- Started the project in 1997, epub ratified in nov 07, Waterstones launch in Sept22 ‘08
- we have to talk about Kindle and other formats in the context of epub
- Put epub into context - you’ll need to think about all these things ISBN’s creation - in epub metadata?
- -was new and ticked various boxes at the time ‘we thought it had legs’ – seems more obvious now than it did at the time and wasn’t even called epub back then but oeb -no tie-in to other organisations -could take experience, knowledge and tools from the web
- -kindle careful to consider - choice of formats is both practical and strategic -example of splintering, leads into chunking and other experimentation, epub may be the basis.
- - It’s all about suppliers, not just choosing but managing them ongoing-big subject and won’t cover here. - in-house there are lots approaches and it’s whatever works for you - this won’t be knew for many but our general approach is to push digital production as far upstream (i.e. as close to the point of creation) as possible
- -EPUB wasn’t mature and hasn’t changed in this time, wanted to tighten it -not rewriting the IDPF spec, must not change it in any way, or stray into areas where the spec is insufficient
- -these are global -content specific = drama, poetry -OPS:open publication structure,OPF:Open packaging format,OCF:Open container format
- Headlines - Images-SVG, family trees landscape (don’t forget rights), insets Tables-device support, large tables How do you want to capture pagination?
- quick overview of each - no time to demo, there are others
- Best practices doc is more technical
- Full control over content in XML source - Publishing on demand, custom pub to varied formats - RNIB large format, XSL-FO to PDF for authors (request and pay for file from vendor). - OASIS, IDPF: benefit from community support and development in what has become a very active area; do others do this? - encourage participation in TC, IDPF: mention negotiating a group deal. - We have benefited from not waiting. use of xml gives flexibility reduces impact of further new conversions
- -new systems, evolving format -to get the most of XML it must be at the centre of the document workflow - update once, produce many: is anybody doing this, if so is it working? - Challenges; external authors, traditionally strong reliance on vendors, new skill sets and culture for traditional vendors and in-house staff. good vendors? - INDD and Word XML support is still limited. - ebook development for new devices and platforms, new licensing models, channels; what do others face?
- - new devices, applications (apps?) and channels -epub more commonly spawning other formats and going via new channels and devices - always looking for cost savings and efficiencies