Hachette Joins Readium Project

ebookNewser reporting: Hachette Livre  – which includes both the Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK — is joining the Readium Project, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s new open source initiative. The move will make Hachette’s eBooks EPUB3 ready.
Hachette’s press release explains more: “The Readium Project aims to ensure that open source software for handling EPUB 3 publications is readily available, to accelerate adoption of EPUB 3 as the universal, accessible, global digital publishing format. This will be achieved by building on WebKit, the widely adopted open source HTML5 rendering engine.”
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