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Old 06-04-2008, 12:35 PM   #20
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I also like the idea, originally discussed on teleread, for an epub2web converter, where "web" is the (exploded) epub plus additional html files to allow the ebook to be read by a standard web browser.
Now teleread is back up, see the discussion in The challenges of building on ePub. The argument for epub2web is that there are so few epub viewer applications, and unmodified web browsers should make very capable epub viewers providing you don't care about pages. The trick would be to get a good set of HTML wrappers for the epub files, since these will control the reading experience (TOC, goto next/last chapter, etcetera). Baen's on-line version is one example of how this might look, for example see the Read Online link for Ring of Fire.
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