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Our fantastically white-and-shiny sister blog, TUAW, has just published a guide all about the EPUB ebook format. This will be of most interest to Apple fans who are planning to buy an iPad, because it's the file format that the iBookstore will use.Even if you're not planning on getting an iPad, EPUB is the format used by all major ebook readers (except the Kindle), so the guide is probably worth reading anyway!
EPUB is based on an international standard and is intended to be the ebook format -- to that end, it supports just about everything, including the possibility to implement a custom DRM scheme to satisfy publishers.
The TUAW guide lists a few great Mac apps for making EPUB files (including the delightful open-source and cross-platform Sigil), but Windows-only options are slim pickings, unless you fancy forking out some serious dollars for Adobe's InDesign.
You don't need a fancy device to read EPUB files, though. There are literally tons of readers -- give Stanza [iTunes link] a go if you're using an iPhone or iPod Touch, or Bookworm for an awesome web-based EPUB reader.
Rejoice! Apple's iBookstore will be using the international standard EPUB format originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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