{"id":3955,"date":"2009-12-03T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2009-12-03T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:53:26","slug":"good-news-for-the-epub-ebook-format-is-good-news-for-the-ebook-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"Good news for the EPUB eBook format is good news for the eBook Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special thanks to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for stopping in with a link to this <strong><a title=\"China and Taiwan say yes to EPUB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/183506\/china_and_taiwan_agree_to_promote_epub_ebook_standard.html\" target=\"_self\">PCWorld story<\/a><\/strong>. China and Taiwan have agreed (in principal) to push the EPUB e-book format for the Chinese-language market. This when officials met at a technology conference last week, with plans to meet next year to settle the deal.<\/p>\n<p>This is huge news considering these two gigantic economies are called home by some of the world&#8217;s most avid readers. If ratified, the deal will open a market of 1.3 billion people to publishers offering their product in the standard eBook format (EPUB).<\/p>\n<p>As soon as a standard is selected (EPUB) then publishers can focus on selling books\u00c2\u00a0and stop all the duplication of effort, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special thanks to Jorgen for stopping in with a link to this PCWorld story. China and Taiwan have agreed (in principal) to push the EPUB e-book format for the Chinese-language market. This when officials met at a technology conference last week, with plans to meet next year to settle the deal. This is huge &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3955\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}