Sophie: EPUB. EPUB (short for electronic publication; sometimes styled ePub) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
Files have the extension .epub. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that an EPUB reader can optimize text for a particular display device. EPUB also supports fixed-layout content. The format is intended as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale.
It supersedes the Open eBook standard.[2] History[edit] EPUB became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.[3] In August 2009, the IDPF announced that they would begin work on maintenance tasks of the EPUB standard.[4] Two broad objectives were defined by this working group: "One set of activities governs maintenance of the current EPUB Standards (i.e. Features[edit] File format[edit] Version 3.0.1 (current version)[edit] Version 2.0.1[edit] <? .opf file <? .ncx file <? Sigil - A WYSIWYG ebook editor.
E-book management. Epubcheck - Validation tool for EPUB. This project has moved to GitHub!
EpubCheck is a tool to validate IDPF EPUB files, version 2.0 and later. It can detect many types of errors in EPUB. OCF container structure, OPF and OPS mark-up, and internal reference consistency are checked. EpubCheck can be run as a standalone command-line tool or used as a Java library. Note that you must be able to run Java from the command-line and be familiar with command-line tools to use this effectively. News 2013-05-27 EpubCheck version 3.0.1 is now available! 2012-12-21 EpubCheck version 3.0 is now available! 2012-12-02 EpubCheck version 3.0-RC-2 is now available here. 2012-10-20 EpubCheck version 3.0-RC-1 is now available here. 2012-04-26 EpubCheck version 3.0b5 is now available here. 2012-01-15 A fourth beta of EpubCheck 3.0 is available here. 2011-11-01 A third beta of EpubCheck 3.0 is available in the Development Builds section. 2011-09-06 A second beta of EpubCheck 3.0 is available in the Development Builds section.
Builds. Stanza Desktop: A Revolution in Reading. Stanza Desktop is a small utility program to assist in converting your books from various formats into ePub, and to assist in transferring your books to Stanza iPhone/iPod Touch. Stanza Desktop currently supports reading books in a variety of unprotected formats (including HTML, plain text, Mobipocket), but note that books in protected formats (such as Kindle books, books protected with Adobe DRM, and protected Mobipocket books) cannot currently be read using Stanza Desktop.
Stanza Desktop does not currently contain any library management features or the ability to download books directly from the internet. For library management and conversion-related features, you may be interested in looking at the free Calibre project at , which also includes the ability to transfer books to Stanza iPhone. Stanza Desktop is currently in beta for Windows and Macintosh. You can download it for Windows or Mac . Trade and Standards Organization for the Digital Publishing Industry.