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eBook Technologies Presents at Digital Book 2010
 
eBook Technologies’ President, Garth Conboy, Speaks on Multiple Topics at the IDPF Digital Book 2010 Conference

LA JOLLA, CA - May 17, 2010 - ETI continues to take an industry leadership role at the International Digital Publishing Forum’s (IDPF) Digital Book 2010 Conference, this year held in conjunction with Book Expo America (BEA). Garth Conboy, eBook Technologies, Inc (ETI) President, is to speak at the main venue on May 25th.

Mr. Conboy will deliver portions of three conference sessions: “Welcome to the eBook Revolution,” “EPUB Boot Camp: Learn How to Produce eBooks in the Industry Standard,” and “EPUB Enhanced, Interactive & Connected.” The first presentation will include an overview of EPUB advancements over the last year, the second “will provide the hands-on steps and programs to get started utilizing the IDPF file format that is the industry standard,” and the third will describe how “eBook content authored in the IDPF EPUB standard is not limited to text and images.”

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.

About the IDPF

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is a trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion of electronic publishing (http://www.idpf.org). The IDPF is responsible for the standardization and dissemination of the EPUB electronic publication standard.

About EPUB

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 encompasses a content markup standard (Open Publication Structure - OPS), a packaging standard (Open Packaging Format - OPF), and a container standard (Open Container Format - OCF).

ETI’s 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.


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