Balisage Paper: The Case for Authoring and Producing Books in (X)HTML5

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013
August 6 - 9, 2013

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Slides and Materials

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Daly, Liza. “The unXMLing of digital books,” February 1, 2013, http://techblog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/02/01/the-unxmling-of-digital-books/

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“EPUB Content Documents 3.0,” IDPF, http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-contentdocs.html

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“EPUB 3 Structural Semantics Vocabulary,” IDPF, http://www.idpf.org/epub/vocab/structure/

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McKesson, Nellie. “Building Books with CSS3,” June 12, 2012, http://alistapart.com/article/building-books-with-css3

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Savikas, Andrew. “Distribution Everywhere,” Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto: O’Reilly Media, Inc, pp 21-34

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“Sectioning content,” HTML 5.1 Nightly, A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Editor’s Draft 8 April 2013, http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#sectioning-content-0

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Wischenbart, Rüdiger, Carlo Carrerho, Veronika Licher, and Vinutha Mallya. “The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections”: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2013.