About Epub, Why is Epub? and growth of Epub in industries and revenue.

1. WelCome to the new world of
Epub

2. Agenda
 Introduction
 What is Epub?
 Structure of Epub
 Why is Epub?
 Tools Used
 Use-Cases
 Epub Validation
Growth of Industries
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
 Founded in 1996:
 In 2000, acquired by:
 Formed in 2004 to take technology forward:

4. Status
 Status
 OPF 2.0 (and OPF 2.0 too) entered IDPF output process in
April 2007
 Approved by membership and published as standard in
September 2007
 Wide adoption (as EPUB) began in the 2nd half of 2008

5. Epub
What is Epub?

6. What is electronic publishing?
• Creation, distribution and sharing of digital
content through a variety of electronic
media (web, CD-ROM, disk)
• True digital publishing - takes advantage of
networking tools and multimedia capability

7. File Structure of Epub
OEBPS
Folders
Meta-Inf
EPUB
File MIME Type

8. Contents of OEBPS
 OEBPS(Open Electronic Book Publication Service)
 XHTML
 Image -Folder
 HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
 CSS (Cascaded Style Sheet)
 OPF (Open Package Format)
 NCX (Navigate Center Extension)
 TOC (Table of Content)
 Page Template

9. Contents of Meta-Inf
 Container.xml
 Display option.xml
 [manifest.xml]
 [metadata.xml]
 [signatures.xml]
 [encryption.xml]
 [rights.xml]

10. EPUB Contaner.xml
 Possible container.xml
 Specify two root files…
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<container version="1.0"
xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container">
<rootfiles>
<rootfile full-path="OEBPS/Great Expectations.opf"
media-type="application/oebps-package+xml" />
<rootfile full-path="PDF/Great Expectations.pdf"
media-type="application/pdf" />
</rootfiles>
</container>

11. Why Epub?

12. HI, I am Mr.
Text.
Mr. Text
will be our
Protagonist today.

13. Firstly, Mr. Text will
dress in PDF.

14. Then, he will
dress in EPUB.

15. Our pop judgment
iPhone
will tell the most
fashion wearing.

16. Mr. Text in
PDF, in iPhone’s
view.
Couldn’t read
clearly?
Zoom in.

17. See?
The Text is fixed.
And iPhone
has to scroll to
read the ‘connotation’

18. Mr. Text in
EPUB, in iPhone’s
view
Zoom in!

19. Oh,
look at that..

20. The text
is reflow able!!
No need
to scroll!!

21. ?
Comparison
between
the two wearing…

22. We love EPUB!!
iPhone EPUB
chooses EPUB!!

23. PDF ePub E-Reader
AnyBizSoft PDF to EPUB converter can do
you this favor.

24. Tools Used
 Coding
 Ultra Edit
 Edit Pro
 Dream Viewer
 Epsilon
 Image Editor
 Adobe Photoshop
 Equations/Expressions
 Math ML
 Output View
 Adobe Digital Editor
 Sony Reader
 Stanza Reader for Iphone

25. Use-Cases

26. Use-Case 1
1 2 2.1 3
2.2
• This type has
become a fairly
2.3
‘standard’ in the
magazine world

27. Use-Case 2
Story
2 Credits
V2
Story
V1
• Remove the navigation
between pages
• Add buttons from the 1st
page to launch different
versions of the book

28. Epub Validation Tool
 Free Epub validation tool is located at
http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck

29. Growth of Industries

30. Conclusion
• Adaptative Guided Reading is a great way
to improve readability of books, including
comics, as well as a way to improve
accessibility of FL books
• eBooks can be more than books...without
requiring any coding.
Designers/Publishers/Individuals can great
content.