Apple on Thursday is expected to be support for the ePub 3 standard to announce. Also would the company’s software for creating e-books in that format to announce, so that audio and video ge lwa integrated.
Apple has for a Thursday event in New York scheduled. Initially went there were rumors that the company’s new iPad was announce, but it soon became clear that the emphasis is on education, in combination with iBooks.
Currently, Apple’s iBook platform support for the ePub 2 standard for e-books, with video and audio, thanks to extensions that can be inserted. The expectation is, according to Ars Technica, that Apple Thursday announces that there is also support for ePub 3. The ePub 3 specification, which describes, among other things, the synchronization of text and sound, and the use of xhtml, svg and css for publications.
Files in ePub publishing would be comparable to the publishing of web content, but there are still a few good tools for it. Apple could to this, indentation by a kind of “Garageband for e-books’, which enable the creation of e-books are trivially easy it would be.
Steve Jobs would, for some years, have been closely involved in a project that relates to education and e-books. An introduction in October 2011, at the same time with the iPhone 4S, would at the last moment abandoned.