Formats & Expectations: EPUB, Web and Web Publications
What is the difference between an EPUB file and an article published online? One may think that they are completely different kinds of contents, with different ways to be consumed and different features for readers to use. However, this assumption is not as straightforward as it may seem.
In a presentation given last month on our YouTube Channel, Hadrien Gardeur from EDRLab and the Readium Foundation introduced another criteria that shapes the way content is consumed: reader expectations. This presentation demonstrated how content formats with nearly identical components can provide radically different user experiences, shaped by our expectations of how each of them should behave. The video also tackles Web Publications and how they can transcend those expectations, with a clean slate that allows the industry to set new ones instead of inheriting them.
Enjoy your watch!
🔗 Links from the video
- Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YZiZCg06Y0O6R8PhFETt3aZwVtb1q60lSmWNHNLocAc
- Readium Web Publication Manifest specification: https://readium.org/webpub-manifest/
- EPUB 3.3: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/
