Japan’s Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard(asiajin.com)

9 pointsby barredovor 15 Jahren8 comments

Japan’s Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard

http://asiajin.com/blog/2011/02/22/japans-book-publishers-decide-to-go-with-epub-standard/

8 comments

mrothevor 15 Jahren

The article says that the Kindle supports EPUB. As far as I know* it does not support this format. And it's one reason I won't buy a Kindle any time soon.

* https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Kindle

kazuyavor 15 Jahren

The Nikkei is sometimes incorrect about technical details (it's a financial paper after all), and the mention of EPUB on Kindle could be their misunderstanding or just a wild speculation, which is their another trait.

The original article online appears to be behind the pay wall, and I couldn't find relevant article on paper, so this is just a guess...

antiherovor 15 Jahren

Does anyone know of an EPUB reader for Windows, Android, or Linux, that doesn't suck horribly? I currently use ezPDF on Android and it's excellent.

kazuyavor 15 Jahren

Try http://ibisreader.com. It's a web app but has offline mode.

mapleoinvor 15 Jahren

okular is pretty good (http://okular.kde.org/)

drinianvor 15 Jahren

Awesome, Japan overcomes NIH syndrome for once.

How is EPUB for graphics-heavy content, like manga?

kazuyavor 15 Jahren

> Awesome, Japan overcomes NIH syndrome for once.

Maybe not. XMDF is the current dominant format for ebooks in Japan and the situation won't change shortly. XMDF has long history of supporting features specific to Japanese (vertical writing, ruby etc.) as well as DRM, while EPUB just has added support for vertical.

xiongchiamiovvor 15 Jahren

The main issue with reading manga on an ereader is dealing with zooming and panning; unless you have it split by panes, rather than pages, that will be an issue no matter the format.