1.  Digital Publishing and the EPUB Standard: Effects on Publishers, Channels and Devices

2. August Wholesale Trade +83% Calendar Year to Date +53%

3. What is EPUB?  EPUB is an XML-based file format designed to reflow text according to screen size  EPUB is actually composed of three standards OPS, OPF and OCF

4. How does EPUB help the Publisher?  Publishers can reduce costs of conversion. Create EPUB only and send through distribution channels  Can be utilized as final deliverable format from Publisher and is utilized in this way by Adobe Digital Editions, Sony Reader, Stanza Reader for iPhone

5. If only it was this uncomplicated

6. How can I create EPUB? In-house solution: (Page Layout)  Adobe InDesign CS4 can export an epub file directly  Quark + 3 rd Party Software

7. How can I create EPUB? In-house solution: (XML Workflow)  If already utilizing XML Tagged Content or Workflow…you can create EPUB

8. How can I create EPUB? Digital Warehouse and Conversion Companies  TexTech, LibreDigital, Publishing Dimensions/ Jouve, codeMantra, Aptara, Innodata Isogen, Rosetta Solutions, Digital Media Initiatives, Apex CoAdvantage, HOV Services  Each of these listed Digital Partners and many more can deliver EPUB to you

9. Interesting and Exciting times ahead  Distributors are receiving EPUB and converting to other formats as necessary  EPUB adoption and implementation is taking place

10. EPUB Readers  Adobe Digital Editions  Sony Reader  Stanza Reader for iPhone

11. United Kingdom: EPUB support  Random House  HarperCollins  Penguin  Simon & Schuster  Pan Macmillan  Mills & Boon  Cambridge University Press  Oxford University Press  Gardners Books  Taylor & Francis  Value Chain International  and more to follow…

12. Association American Publishers : EPUB support  HarperCollins Publishers  Harlequin  Simon & Schuster  Hachette Book Group  John Wiley & Sons Inc.  Penguin Group USA  Random House  Macmillan  Cambridge University Press  Oxford University Press  Pelican Publishing Company  Cengage Learning  Workman Publishing  Seattle Book Company  National Science Teachers Assoc.  CQ Press

13. Supply Chain: EPUB support  Adobe  LibreDigital  Ingram Digital  OverDrive  eBook Technologies  Publishing Dimensions  VitalSource Technologies  Mobipocket  Rosetta Solutions  Innodata Isogen  TexTech  codeMantra  DNAML  and many more…

14. EPUB Validation Tool  Free EPUB validation tool is located at http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck

15. IDPF  Trade and Standards organization for Digital Publishing Industry.  Business Special Interest Group (BSIG)  IDPF develops and maintains industry standards for text-based digital reflowable books and publications

16. Michael Smith IDPF msmith@idpf.org www.idpf.org 905-235-4373