The same holds true for electronic books.Į-books are usually not “websites.” You can post your book copy as web pages, but the E-book as a logical entity is not a website.ĮPub, the international E-book standard, is HTML (XHTML 1.1 with minor exclusions). The web is mostly about expressing words, and HTML works well for it.
People are finally noticing what was staring them in the face all along-HTML is great for expressing words. Technology predictions can come back to haunt you, but this one I’m sure about: The fate of non-HTML formats has been sealed by HTML5 and the iPad. Web standards take on a new flavor when rendering literature on the screen, and classic assumptions about typography (or “formatting”) have to be adjusted. E-books aren’t websites, but E-books are distributed electronically.
The electronic book is the latest example of how HTML continues to win out over competing, often nonstandardized, formats. Brief books for people who make websites.
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