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How Many Books Could ePub Pub if ePub Could Pub Books

June 26, 2024 Jared White & Ayush Newatia Episode 19
How Many Books Could ePub Pub if ePub Could Pub Books
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How Many Books Could ePub Pub if ePub Could Pub Books
Jun 26, 2024 Episode 19
Jared White & Ayush Newatia

What if you could take HTML & CSS, package them up in a file, and publish that file as a singular artifact? That's essentially what ePub is. (ePUB? EPUB?) With Ayush's real-world experience publishing e-books, we are guided through understanding more about this important (and sometimes overlooked) spec. Alas, the devil's in the details, and we get into many of those details here on today's episode of Just a Spec.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

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What if you could take HTML & CSS, package them up in a file, and publish that file as a singular artifact? That's essentially what ePub is. (ePUB? EPUB?) With Ayush's real-world experience publishing e-books, we are guided through understanding more about this important (and sometimes overlooked) spec. Alas, the devil's in the details, and we get into many of those details here on today's episode of Just a Spec.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

Introduction
Weather Report™
Make sure you listen to Episode 18!
How in the actual f--- do you write out EPUB?!
Just text files in a Zip…
The ePub spec
Erm…worse than…HTML email??!!
Experiencing ePub as a consumer
Wishing ePub could handle complex presentation better (like, ugh, PDF)
Source authoring in AsciiDoc
Debugging PDF generation…ain't fun!
Wishing reading ePub was as fun as producing it
Thankful to have ePub as an open format…unlike MOBI!
Interop for ePub? Make it so, please!
Outro