We are at an Inflection Point for Publishing and the Web

摘要

Publishing technology is at an important inflection point. It has evolved from consisting mostly of proprietary and incompatible applications and systems to being almost entirely based on web technologies. Those provide fundamental benefits such as interoperability, accessibility, security, and stability. Now with the inclusion of EPUB, the ongoing work in the Publishing@W3C activity is entering a new phase which promises to both establish EPUB as an ever more crucial and stable standard for ebooks and to make the tent bigger for publications and the web, bringing many more sectors of publishing into the fold.