davextreme

David Ely lives in Alexandria, VA, is left-handed, doesn't eat meat, wears corrective lenses, is a father, posts photos on Flickr, thoughts on Twitter, and almost nothing on Facebook.

Mar 09

Web Standards for E-books

Interesting article by Joe Clark about the difficulties in marking up ebooks. ePub (which the iPad will use) is just plain HTML, but surprisingly few publishers know how to write good code. See also the sidebar, which shows some examples of poor typography in the ebook version of China MiĆ©ville’s The City & the City.

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