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Understanding Critical Elements of E-books, Part One: EPUB3: Putting Electronic Books into a Package

Webinar

About the Webinar

A critical element of the e-book marketplace is a common file structure that is agreed upon between content creators and the supply chain, and works with multiple reader technologies. The newly released EPUB 3 specification offers a number of major innovations over the previous version, including support for rich media, interactivity, global language support), and styling and layout enhancements. EPUB 3 is also tightly integrated to web standards. This includes HTML 5, which is still in draft. Yet HTML5 is already in use for app development on the iPad and other mobile devices. This webinar will provide a discussion of both of these standards and their use for creating rich, cross-platform e-books.

Part Two of this webinar, Find That E-book – or Not: How Metadata Matters, will be held on Wednesday, March 21.

Event Sessions

Introduction

Speaker

EPUB 3 Overview, Evolution, and Benefits

Speaker

The recently released EPUB 3 standard is expected to be the foundation for the next generation of digital publications of all sorts--not only books. Developed by a broad-based working group representing diverse constituencies, it provides a common format for delivery to a wide variety of reading systems and devices, from laptops to tablets to smartphones to dedicated eReaders, and accommodates multimedia, rich layout and typography, scripting, and greatly enhanced accessibility and metadata. Mr. Kasdorf will discuss how this watershed standard was developed, what it is designed to accomplish, and how it will evolve over time to stay in synch with today's dynamic digital ecosystem.

Adding Interactivity to Ebooks with HTML5

Speaker

HTML5 is revolutionizing the Web, and now it’s coming to your ebook reader! Sanders will provide an overview of several areas of HTML5 that offer great promise to ebook publishers looking to expand beyond traditional text-and-graphic narratives, including Canvas, Audio/Video, Geolocation, and MathML, as well as an overview of the current state of HTML5 support in major ereaders (e.g, iBooks, Nook Tablet, Kindle Fire).

Additional Information

  • Registration closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on March 14, 2012. Cancellations made by March 7, 2012 will receive a refund, less a $20 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
  • Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the webinar via e-mail the Monday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the webinar.
  • Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact the NISO office to provide alternate contact information.
  • Webinar presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to the site following the live webinar.
  • Registrants will receive access information to the archived webinar following the event. An e-mail message containing archive access instructions will be sent within 48 hours of the event.

Event Dates

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Registration

Registration closes on

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Fees

Registration Costs

  • NISO Member
    • $89.00 (US and Canada)
    • $104.00 (International)
  • NASIG Member
    • $89.00
  • Non-Member
    • $119.00 (US and Canada)
    • $144.00 (International)
  • Student
    • $49.00

Location

  • NISO has developed a quick tutorial, How to Participate in a NISO Web Event. Please view the recording, which is an overview of the web conferencing system and will help to answer the most commonly asked questions regarding participating in an online Webex event.
  • You will need a computer for the presentation and Q&A.
  • Audio is available through the computer (broadcast) and by telephone. We recommend you have a set-up for telephone audio as back-up even if you plan to use the broadcast audio as the voice over Internet isn't always 100% reliable.
  • Please check your system in advance to make sure it meets the Cisco WebEx requirements. It is your responsibility to ensure that your system is properly set up before each webinar begins.