Up the authoring-publisher POV

[iherman]

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on that note...it would be interesting to up the authoring-publisher POV here...the ability to painlessly transition between offline to online is only gently touched on with reference to content production but this would actually be the most significant gain for current publishers whether they be 'web first' or a paper-first publisher that also produces EPUB. It could potentially help save publishers an enormous amount of time and expense (in typesetting and document conversion) if the production storage format was EPUB.

This paper points suggestively in that direction but the argument might be made stronger ...of course that might only confuse the issue...I guess it would only really make a difference to advocacy if publishers wanted a voice in their future ie. publishers were 1) aware of the importance of 'the open web platform' in their future 2) members of the W3C

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