What are the advantages of the new ePub format?
What are the advantages of the new ePub format?
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Apple suport says that there will still be most features of IBooks so this is good. I like the content page and this is a step forward. Please explain the comment about the ePub produced.... In other applications they might appear slightly different.....Does this mean that the ePub will have a different font on a Kindle device ? How different might it be when viewed on Amazon books? Is this allowed? Or does the comment refer to viewing on different sized iPads and on the iPhone?
Apple suport says that there will still be most features of IBooks so this is good. I like the content page and this is a step forward. Please explain the comment about the ePub produced.... In other applications they might appear slightly different.....Does this mean that the ePub will have a different font on a Kindle device ? How different might it be when viewed on Amazon books? Is this allowed? Or does the comment refer to viewing on different sized iPads and on the iPhone?
To put an epub on a Kindle it first has to be converted to .mobi format. You can ask on the Kindle forums what happens when that is done.
The comment means that every epub reader for different platforms has its own quirks about display. Unless you have embedded a font in your epub, normally the reader chooses what font to use from a list provided by the app. One of the main advantages of epub format is that, unlike .ibooks format, it is not confined to Apple devices.
Thanks for the explanation. I would like to see a non-fiction book, free or paid, that has been written with the new ePub format. Can you suggest one or two please?
I expect most authors will be switching to the new ePub to have the option of using other market places.
Sorry, I don't know which books in the iBookstore may have been done in the new epub format, and I don't know of any way to tell from the listings in the store.
The variety of templates that can be used for the new epub format is quite limited compared to that for the .ibooks format. I think the only way to tell how suitable it is for your particular book is to try it.
Also do a google search on "ibooks author epub" to see what various people have written about it.
I have spent some time following up your suggestion. It would seem that the iBook ePub will not work fully on other platforms and an Apple logo is present on each page. The gallery does not work as these other platforms have a much more basic ePub.
It would seem that text and photos could be pasted into Pages and a simple ePub made from there. This would show up well and work for fiction books or non fiction with photos embedded on each page.
I suppose it depends on the type of book one wishes to produce...
What are the advantages of the new ePub format?