2018-06-15 00:00:00
Notes from Berlin: DPUB Summit Highlights
From: EPUBSecrets
This is a guest post by Ken Jones â Ken specialises in writing workflow applications and offering training and consultancy for publishers on print and digital workflows. Kenâs company âCircular Softwareâ provides software tools and services for a range of illustrated... Continue Reading →The Digital Publishing Summit was held in Berlin on Weds 16th and Thurs 17th May. It was a wide-ranging and stimulating event full of interesting news about the digital publishing landscape.
The area of central Berlin we were in had a pleasant bohemian vibe. After my vegan panini and smoothie, I strolled to the event hotel as hordes of cyclists whizzed by along the sunny streets. Oh, wait, this is not a holiday review, allow me to continue⦠#not-eprdctn
This previous name for this yearly gathering used to be the âEPUB summitâ but this year it has been renamed the Digital Publishing Summit or âDPUB summitâ as it relates to digital publishing beyond EPUB. Before the main conference started around 40 of us started off the Wednesday morning with an extra Readium workshop led by Laurent Le Meur, CTO, EDRLab ( @lmrlaurent). Laurent started but outlining some of the challenges with Readium 1 â notably performance, accessibility gaps and lack of Windows and Linux SDKs. They decided to to start R2 with fresh codebase and to create new mobile & desktop SDK named Readium-2 (aka R2).
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