According to Mitch Ratcliffe at ZDNet.com, “there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months”. I am therefore about to embark on a quick research project, with a group of students, aimed at creating a simple workflow for getting a range of material online in epub format.

When I first looked at e-books several years ago there was a format war going on to no very great effect. Today, as e-readers seem poised to finally go mainstream, it looks as though there are two formats that are becoming standard: pdf and epub. This article begins looking at the epub format.