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Digital Publishing Is Now Truly Global:IPA Endorses EPUB 3 as
Global Publishing Standard
Geneva, 12 March 2013 For immediate release
The International Publishers Association (IPA) recognizes EPUB 3
as a preferredstandard format for representing HTML and other web
content for distribution assingle-file publications. IPA recommends
that publishers and their nationalpublishers associations
familiarise themselves with EPUB 3 and explore whetherand how they
can make best use of its functionalities.
Meeting in New York earlier this month, the Board of IPA
endorsed the EPUB standard,and in particular its current version
EPUB 3, for the following reasons:
IPA believes that a competitive and diverse digital environment
requires the wide-spread adoption and use of free and open
standards for digital content by pub-lishers, technology providers,
and distribution platforms.
Open standards that are collaboratively developed and
vendor-independent pro-vide an inclusive context which gives
publishers great freedom in the way theydevelop their digital
businesses.
Standards must be developed through transparent, inclusive and
business model-neutral standards bodies. The international
publishing industry is adequately rep-resented, together with other
stakeholders, in the governance of the InternationalDigital
Publishing Forum (IDPF), the global trade and standards
organisation ded-icated to the development and promotion of
electronic publishing and contentconsumption.
EPUB 3 is semantically enhanced, reliably navigable, and enables
publishers toprogress from producing static documents to creating
interactive experiences.
With EPUB 3, content can be encoded into a distributable
publication file that isinteroperable across devices and can adapt
smoothly to different sized displays.
EPUB 3 is a truly international e-book standard. It fulfils the
requirements of pub-lishers around the world, including by
supporting global language requirements,such as vertical layout,
alternative writing, and page progression directions, aswell as
other typographic capabilities needed to express the wide range of
worldlanguages.
Furthermore, EPUB 3 can be made fully accessible to print
disabled readers.
Mr Bammel, IPAs Secretary General, said: Digital publishing is
now truly global. IPAstrongly urges all publishing industry
stakeholders to adopt EPUB 3 so that thepublishing industry can
achieve an interoperable and fully accessible global standard
for
e-books and other digital publications.
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About IPA:
The International Publishers Association (IPA) is an
international industry federationrepresenting all aspects of book
and journal publishing. Established in 1896, IPA'smission is to
promote and protect publishing and to raise awareness for
publishing as aforce for economic, cultural and political
development. Around the world IPA activelyfights against censorship
and promotes copyright, literacy and freedom to publish. IPA isan
industry association with a human rights mandate.For further
information, please contact:
Alexis KrikorianDirector, Freedom to PublishInternational
Publishers Association23, avenue de FranceCH-1202 GenevaTel: +41 22
704 1820
Fax: +41 22 704
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