Plenary of the Publishing Community Group

The 2025 activity of the Publishing Community Group focused on a special
round of invited presentations, notably on AI in RS
<https://w3c.github.io/publishingcg/Meetings/AIsessions/>, which
demonstrated innovative, openly accessible, and responsible approaches to
using AI in publishing. A second focus has been on specific  publishing use
cases,  in the context of Brazil's National Textbook Program
<https://w3c.github.io/publishingcg/Meetings/Minutes/2025-11-05-publishingcg.html>,
which also nicely illustrated the factors that influence the choice between
EPUBs and Web Publications. These thematic sessions highlighted practical
experimentation with intelligent reading technologies and national-scale
deployment of publishing workflows. We also cleaned and updated our
documentation
webpage <https://w3c.github.io/publishingcg/>.

By 2026, we will resume regular monthly meetings with key discussions
around uncommon and experimental digital publishing. The first will be
on January
29th at 5 pm UTC to discuss and document what the web publication
<https://w3c.github.io/wpub/> format is suitable for and explore its
distinction from EPUB and other formats, i.e., under what conditions it
will be the best option. We  would love to get testimonies from
professionals who use or  think about using the Web Publication format.
Please come and join us!

We are open to receiving proposals for the other sessions of the year,
which will take place on the last Thursday of each month at 5 pm UTC.

*Gautier Chomel *
*Head of Accessibility **& Quality Management*
European Digital Reading Lab <http://www.edrlab.org/> | +33 6 77 32 96
98 | Schedule
short meeting <https://calendar.app.google/wDrEGetrh5JK2NH3A>