Book description
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
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Package Document and Metadata
- 2. Navigation
- 3. Content Documents
- 4. Font Embedding and Licensing
- 5. Multimedia
- 6. Media Overlays
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7. Interactivity
- First Principles: Interaction Scope and Design
- Procedural Interaction: JavaScript
- Animation and Graphics: Canvas
- Object
- Other Graphical Interaction Models
- Accessibility and Scripting Summary
- 8. Global Language Support
- 9. Accessibility
- 10. Text-to-Speech (TTS)
- 11. Validation
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Index
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: EPUB 3 Best Practices
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2013
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449329143
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