EPUB 3 Best Practices: Optimize Your Digital Books

Ready to take your ebooks to the next level with EPUB 3? This concise guide includes best practices and advice to help you navigate the format s wide range of technologies and functionality. EPUB 3 is set to turn electronic publishing on its head with rich multimedia reading experiences and scripted interactivity, but this specification can be daunting to learn. This book provides you with a solid foundation.

Written by people involved in the development of this specification, EPUB 3 Best Practices includes chapters that cover unique aspects of the EPUB publishing process, such as technology, content creation, and distribution.

• Get a comprehensive survey of accessible production features
• Learn new global language-support features, including right-to-left page progressions
• Embed content with EPUB 3 s new multimedia elements
• Make your content dynamic through scripting and interactive elements
• Work with publication and distribution metadata
• Create synchronized text and audio playback in reading systems
• Learn techniques for fixed and adaptive layouts