The ePub standard itself can cause some trouble for creating and editing e-books, as HTML is designed for web browsing, while e-books possess some certain features, such as pagination and have more accurate layouts. Besides what's mentioned above, you may feel like adding videos or audio files to your ePub books to make them more vivid, exciting and appealing. I heard an online friend who used to work in the traditional publication industry now attempts to learn about every step of the process of e-publication from selecting the font and colors of the words and the background, adding numbers to the pages, and setting different formats to appending notes and references to the books.

In addition to reading, some of you may also want to edit the ePub books on your devices. As a result, anyone can make such files, and because the contents are based on XHTML, anyone can read them as well. As a well-recognized e-book format, ePub supports changing the font, dynamically altering the text layouts, embedding images, is attached with complete book information, and uses the CSS typography.ĮPub files internally utilize XHTML (a more strict type of HTML, HyperText Markup Language) or DTBook (an XML, Extensible Markup Language, standard) to show the texts, and pack up the file contents with the Zip compressing format.

Since the PDF format developed by Adobe, which used to be the most widely used e-book file format, cannot adapt the contents to displays of different sizes, ePub, a new open and free e-book standard that provides automatic content arranging according to the display devices for optimized reading, has emerged to offer a key to such a problem. The figure of users reading e-books, books in electronic edition, has been continuing the upward trend in the e-market in recent years.

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