RE: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call

Hi Rachel,

I’m checking with Sales and will let you know.

Slightly off-topic, Google Play won’t accept any EPUB3 with MathML (even if we provide a fallback image). Unfortunately this makes us default to EPUB2 if a book contains Math. Has anyone else had this experience with them?

Thanks,
Julie

From: Rachel Comerford <rachel.comerford@macmillan.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 6:56 AM
To: Julie Blair <Julie.Blair@sagepub.com>
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Subject: Re: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call

Thanks Julie! Do you know which distributors/reading systems you work with that do not yet accept EPUB3? It would be interesting in helping us develop a secondary target audience for this document.

R

Rachel Comerford | Senior Director of Content Standards and Accessibility | T 212.576.9433

Macmillan Learning

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Julie Blair <Julie.Blair@sagepub.com<mailto:Julie.Blair@sagepub.com>> wrote:
We do just this at SAGE Publishing. We create an EPUB3 then run a second transformation to down-convert that package to EPUB2 for those channels/vendors that won’t accept EPUB3 files.

-Julie Blair

From: AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr<mailto:LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 8:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call

I think it is a good idea but it has a cost.

Although difficult to know exactly, I do think almost all old EPUB2-only devices support EPUB3 files, I mean those described in the document "EPUB2 Sunset".
At least, the tests we did in 2015 at Hachette Livre France, helped us decide to switch the entire EPUB2 production to EPUB3. With no regrets…

Best regards,
Luc


De : MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp<mailto:eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>>
Date : vendredi 10 août 2018 à 11:53
À : AUDRAIN LUC AUDRAIN LUC <laudrain@hachette-livre.fr<mailto:laudrain@hachette-livre.fr>>
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Objet : Re: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call

Takami-san suggested downward translation from EPUB 3 to EPUB 2.
It allows publishers to adopt EPUB 3 while continuing to support
EPUB2-only devices.

Regards,
Makoto

2018年8月10日(金) 16:42 AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr<mailto:LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>>:
Hi all,

BISG has released a tweet today on the white paper we have been working on in the EPUB Roadmap TF.

I wanted to present it in a future PBG call but as it is now public, here it is:
Here is the link : https://github.com/readium/readium.github.io/wiki/EPUB-2-sunset


Any comments are welcome of course.

And I think we should publish it in a W3C blog. Ivan, is it possible?

Best,
Luc



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Makoto