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eBook Technologies’ President, Garth Conboy, Elected Chairman of the IDPF Board
 
Continuing eBook Technologies’ Industry Leadership, Garth Conboy Will Serve as Chairman of the International Digital Publishing Forum’s Board of Directors

LA JOLLA, CA - February 06, 2010 - The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is a trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion of electronic publishing). The IDPF is responsible for the standardization and dissemination of the EPUB electronic publication standard.

EPUB enables the creation and transport of reflowable digital books and other types of content as single-file digital publications that are interoperable between disparate EPUB-compliant reading devices and applications. EPUB includes a content markup standard (Open Publication Structure - OPS), a packaging standard (Open Packaging Format - OPF), and a container standard (Open Container Format - OCF).

eBook Technologies, Inc. (ETI) senior staff have played pivotal roles in the organization since it’s inception. Garth Conboy (ETI’s President), John Rivlin (ETI’s CEO), and Brady Duga (ETI Senior Engineer) chaired and vice-chaired the technical working groups that designed the EPUB standard and its predecessor standards.

In December 2009, Garth Conboy was re-elected to the Board of Directors by the membership of the IDPF. Mr. Conboy’s nomination statement stressed his dual roles within the organization:
“I have played technical and executive roles in the eBook industry continuously over the past twelve years — I am passionate about the promise that the technology holds. I would like to continue to lend my enthusiasm to this effort both technically and organizationally. On the technical front, I will drive standards evangelism and will be closely involved in future IDPF technical efforts. Organizationally, I would like to retain my seat on the IDPF Board of Directors and hereby self-nominate for an open seat on the board.”
As the newly seated IDPF Board of Directors commenced operations in January, 2010, the officer election was held. Garth Conboy was elected to serve as Chairman of Board.

About eBook Technologies. Inc.

ETI is driving the eBook industry forward by designing, developing, and promoting advanced electronic content distribution and reading technology. ETI technology includes reading devices, content creation tools, content distribution and management technology, electronic bookstore and eCommerce implementations. Garth Conboy, president and founder of eBook Technologies, serves as Chairman of IDPF Board of Directors.

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