The most recent IDPF BSIG call highlighted the cost of success. Epub adoption has been happening all over the place with some publishers creating only epub and device manufacturers seeing the wisdom of supporting epub, but with this success has come the growing pains of a young standard in the wild.
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While the London Book Fair was home to big news regarding digitization with Random House announcing their further rollout of digital books and Penguin announcing support for the open .epub standard, the IDPF BSIG (Business Special Interest Group) call this week centered around some practical guidelines for going forward with digitization.