Re: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call

True, I've had a lot of success discussing individual errors/issues with
distributors (sorrynotsorry Garth). The update to epubcheck (PLEASE
DONATE!!!) will hopefully decrease the number of issues that pop up because
of this but it's an important distinction.

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

*Macmillan Learning*

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Balis, Peter <pbalis@wiley.com> wrote:

> I think it is important (tzviya, please chime in here when you can) to
> distinguish between accounts that don’t accept ePub3 and those that don’t
> accept ePub3 with some features.  This is not an insignificant
> distinction.  A lot of publishers do not have books with MathMl and those
> publishers would argue that Google does accept their ePub3 files.
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> *From: *Julie Blair <Julie.Blair@sagepub.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 1:55 PM
> *To: *Rachel Comerford <rachel.comerford@macmillan.com>
> *Cc: *AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>, MURATA Makoto <
> eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>, W3C Publishing Business Group <
> public-publishingbg@w3.org>
> *Subject: *RE: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call
> *Resent-From: *<public-publishingbg@w3.org>
> *Resent-Date: *Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 1:54 PM
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> Hi Rachel,
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> I’m checking with Sales and will let you know.
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
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> Julie
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> *From:* Rachel Comerford <rachel.comerford@macmillan.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 12, 2018 6:56 AM
> *To:* Julie Blair <Julie.Blair@sagepub.com>
> *Cc:* AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>; MURATA Makoto <
> eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>; W3C Publishing Business Group <
> public-publishingbg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call
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> 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.
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> R
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> Rachel Comerford | Senior Director of Content Standards and Accessibility
> | T 212.576.9433
>
> *Macmillan Learning*
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> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Julie Blair <Julie.Blair@sagepub.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> -Julie Blair
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> *From:* AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 10, 2018 8:06 AM
> *To:* MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
> *Cc:* W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call
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> I think it is a good idea but it has a cost.
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> 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".
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> 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…
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> Best regards,
>
> Luc
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> *De : *MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
> *Date : *vendredi 10 août 2018 à 11:53
> *À : *AUDRAIN LUC AUDRAIN LUC <laudrain@hachette-livre.fr>
> *Cc : *W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>
> *Objet : *Re: [EPUB Roadmap] EPUB3 Justification call
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> Takami-san suggested downward translation from EPUB 3 to EPUB 2.
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> It allows publishers to adopt EPUB 3 while continuing to support
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> EPUB2-only devices.
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> Regards,
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> Makoto
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> 2018年8月10日(金) 16:42 AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>:
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> Hi all,
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> BISG has released a tweet today on the white paper we have been working on
> in the EPUB Roadmap TF.
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> I wanted to present it in a future PBG call but as it is now public, here
> it is:
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> Here is the link : https://github.com/readium/
> readium.github.io/wiki/EPUB-2-sunset
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> Any comments are welcome of course.
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> And I think we should publish it in a W3C blog. Ivan, is it possible?
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> Best,
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> Luc
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> --
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> Praying for the victims of the Japan Tohoku earthquake
>
> Makoto
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