FutureBook

Recently I was asked by a curious intern for a bit of a look at the inner workings of an ebook. I found myself giving a short lecture on HTML and XML.

She was young, bright, and had an MA in Publishing. But she had next-to-no understanding of the basic underpinning of an ebook (and, by extension, of the world wide web – ePUB is made up of the same languages that make up the web).

Now I don't expect every publishing graduate to be coding in JavaScript or styling CSS, but at the same time I found it odd that a basic understanding of HTML was not part of her course.  Read more »