Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, has implemented support for the EPUB 3 standard in its flagship Bookshelf platform. With this move, the company becomes the first e-textbook solution provider to deliver support for the latest version of the open industry standard.
The new EPUB 3 version, based on HTML5, supports rich media, interactivity, global languages, and enhanced accessibility features. As publishers develop e-books that include rich media and interactive applications for the education community, more are turning to Vital Source because of its comprehensive EPUB readiness to create, enhance, and distribute content to institutions, educators and students worldwide.
Vital Source can accept and deliver EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 content to institutional partners around the world through its Bookshelf platform. Fast becoming the de facto standard within the e-reading sector, the VitalSource platform supports EPUB across all six clients including browser, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Kindle Fire.
With more than 2.2 million users, VitalSource claims to be the most used e-textbook platform in education today. With a presence on 6,000 campuses in 180 countries, educators and students have access to tens of thousands of titles from the world’s leading textbook publishers.
