EPUB3 is the most accessible and valuable digital publication file that can be delivered to a smartphone, tablet or ereading device. The files open on well-known apps specially designed to optimise and enhance the reading or viewing experience of your audience. It's been the book industry standard format for ebook publication for many years but recent increased adoption of the format in the wider world means there's an ever increasing level of infrastructure supporting the file.
As well as being valuable stand-alone files, EPUBs are also remarkably flexible. They have the potential to be automatically converted into many other formats including high-spec print, specialist pdf and websites. So they can help you reach people in different ways and also serve as the base unit of more comprehensive custom-made digital publishing or content management systems.
I make EPUBs directly with code and combine this with knowledge of reading systems to go well beyond what is possible with professional EPUB creation software. I guarantee the highest levels of interoperability and ensure the layout of your publication renders as intended across all devices to the highest degree possible. I manage conversion processes in a similar way, working directly on the base code of target formats to achieve precise output.
This website is currently under construction, it will be messy until the middle of October. I am currently reworking all graphics and animation. I am switching to SVG graphics and CSS animation as much as possible (SVG is high quality, video offers the potential for even higher quality but with too many trade-offs in my particular case). Since I've switched to a particular way of animating SVG, some audit tools are issuing warnings on the performance of the site. While there are issues with SVG and my site too as it is under construction, the underlying problem in this case is not performance in browsers but with the audit tools not picking up data from the SVG (despite being the 'native' format in one sense, SVG remains undersupported compared to other universal formats in the ecosystem). I am reworking the layout too, at the moment the sizing and positioning of elements is consistent but it comes from my old website (a website builder) where I had to place elements in rigidly set grids. The new layout will be subtley but significantly better. I'll make the typography more responsive. The final copy will be shorter. All file sizes will be smaller. I'm giving more thought to colour. The navigation needs a lot of work but the basic idea is in, a tap or click brings the navigation in and out of view and you have the choice of section navigation via a menu or linear progression with arrows as on most ereading apps. The arrows won't stay around too long but they'll clearly imply to the user that the designated areas can be used to navigate back and forth through the pages. The whole website will be more slick, smooth and responsive to touch if you are on phone or tablet. I'll put in a completely precise logo everywhere it appears. Vanilla javascript will go in towards the end. Very last thing will be an intermittant right to left banner effect at the top with the logo that will mix with how it is statically at the moment.
I've recently uploaded revised downloads onto this site. I'll make some more revisions at the end of October. You won't receive the new versions on your reading app automatically when I update them but it is possible to distribute EPUBs for free and update them remotely if you distribute via Apple Books and Google Play Books (but the files will no longer be interoperable).
This website will be completed by 1 November.