HTML5 Project Makes Browser Emulate Tablet Reading Experience

ubergizmo: "Since Amazon has gotten more generous with their payouts for publishers of ebooks and the ebook market growing at a phenomenal rate, it is safe to conclude that more and more people are hopping aboard the tablet bandwagon to carry their virtual books everywhere they go. The HTML5 project from the Center for Public Integrity intends to make lengthier stories a whole lot easier to read on both desktop and mobile browsers, so that means you need not have to own an ebook reader of sorts to get the same reading experience (sans the mobile one, of course). All content will be displayed in a horizontal, widescreen format that lacks irritating banner ads and other content links. As the template uses HTML5 for its rendering, the format is 100% mobile-friendly."

"Books in Browsers" Meeting - Internet Archive

Peter Brantley, HASTAC: "The Internet Archive is planning a meeting in San Francisco on Thu. Oct 21 - Fri. Oct 22 tentatively titled 'Books in Browsers'. The meeting will cover achievements in moving books to the web, including developments in OPDS Catalogs, vending and lending, and the design and effective deployment of ebooks and reading experiences for web environments. The portability of books and bookshelves, reader application interoperability, storage and transmission security (including encryption and caching), the legal and user consequences of book licensing vs purchase, and ramifications for user privacy and data protection are viable angles. ... I am interested in both specific proposals and general interest in attendance, which may be restricted for space. The meeting will be held in San Francisco at the Internet Archive offices."