[LINK] iPad experimentation begins: e-media

[Tom Worthington]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> Penguin's Makinson Demonstrates iPad Adaptations ... forsaking
>> epub, which "is designed for narrative text but not this cool stuff
>> ...

The Epub ebook format is not much more than XHTML and other web format
files, zipped into a file to make it portable
<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB>.

I expect that someone, perhaps Apple, will propose a multimedia e-book 
format, using HTML 5 in place of XHTML, with all the media flies zipped: 
<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/xhtml5>.

This would allow for a more interactive and engaging, less book-like
interface.


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