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Why do we need EPUB3 when we have HTML5, does EPUB3 compete or complement HTML5?

Metadata, although usually unseen by users is an impoartant part of an EPUB file. This article discusses one of these meatadata items the dc:identifier used as the book identifier.

Beginners guide to EPUB3

The EPUB3 standard is not so new, it is more than a year old, but still not very common both in readers and in publications. This article tries to show the reasons. Written in a simple and not too technical language.

We have just been informed by the IDPF that the International Standard Organization (ISO) has accepted the EPUB3 as an ISO standard. In our point of view these are great news for the publishing industry.

What is EPUB quality assurance, why is it needed and what are the main things we look for when we do an EPUB quality assurance.

EPUB3 has many opponents some of them saying this is a dead standard and has no future.This is our answer

EPUB3 has a new navigation document that is both machine readable and human readable

EPUB3 standard uses HTML5 inside it. Some of the additions of HTML5 are semantic tags. This article discusses the use of these tags in EPUB3 publications.

EPUB3 has two methods of links, the standard HTML links and CFI which is a flexible link method unique to EPUB3. This article is an introduction to the CFI system.