{"id":1150,"date":"2011-11-08T16:48:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2011-11-08T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:48:24","slug":"another-epub-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/08\/another-epub-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Another EPUB Win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eBook format wars seem to have lost a major player when Sharp announced it was <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2011\/11\/end-of-japan-ebook-isolation\/\" title=\"Sharp quits Galapagos\">discontinuing its Galapagos tablet<\/a>, which used their homegrown <a href=\"http:\/\/sharp-world.com\/corporate\/news\/100720.html\" title=\"XMDF\">XMDF<\/a> format. This reversal has caused at least one writer to speculate it will drive Japanese publishers and device makers toward <a href=\"http:\/\/idpf.org\/epub\/30\" title=\"EPUB3\">EPUB3<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe historical blocker for EPUB in Japan was its anemic support of Japanese typesetting standards, including arcane character sets and vertical type. Sharp built XMDF to address those issues. But now, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2011\/11\/end-of-japan-ebook-isolation\/\" title=\"Hiroki Kamata translated in Publishing Perspectives\">Hiroki Kamata<\/a>, writing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebook2forum.com\/\" title=\"Ebook 2.0 Forum\">Ebook 2.0 Forum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EPUB3 now adequately supports Japanese typesetting rules (much of the work accomplished by a team of Japanese engineers) and is also usable with web browsers supporting HTML5, as well as the Japanese typesetting extension already implemented by Apple\u2019s Safari.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Japanese market is a <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2011\/08\/stalled-japan-ebook-development\/\" title=\"Japan's Stalled eBook Environment\">tough one to crack<\/a> by any measure, the prospect that EPUB will become viable in yet another market helps streamline the global eBook conversion process. More importantly, it can help stave off <a href=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=333\" title=\"Fragmentation Toolset\">platform fragmentation<\/a>. We can live with two eBook formats. Three is one road too many, even for a unique market like Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eBook format wars seem to have lost a major player when Sharp announced it was discontinuing its Galapagos tablet,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,30],"tags":[204,219,220,255,322,494,515],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-2","category-technology","tag-ebook","tag-epub","tag-epub3","tag-galapagos-tablet","tag-japan","tag-sharp","tag-tablets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another EPUB Win? - Butcher Baker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/08\/another-epub-win\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another EPUB Win? 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