Thread: Adequacy of EPUB?
View Single Post
Old 11-27-2015, 06:53 AM   #105
kennyc
The Dank Side of the Moon
kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kennyc ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
kennyc's Avatar
 
Posts: 35,916
Karma: 119747553
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarmat89 View Post
EPUB seems to be the dominating format, but it is hardly adequate for the fiction.
It is based on HTML, which semantical elements are rudimentary and focused around computer manuals (tt, var, code, dd).
HTML mixes up logical and physical layout when creating the simplest fiction elements: letters, titlepages, poems, even chapter titles—they have to be imitated by CSS styles. If you take 5 EPUBs of similar structure, they will have 5 different ways to structure its elements.

Also EPUB cannot handle metadata: there is no support for genres, series, translations, artists...

Shouldn't the editors and publishers to embrace a new format which was designed with eBooks in mind?
Adequacy? Perfectly adequate.
kennyc is offline   Reply With Quote