The arrival in January of Apple’s new iBooks Author tool for developing and publishing digital literature may signal a new phase of e-book development that’s good news for tablets, but raises questions about the future of EPUB3. That’s the view of a PW blogger Peter Brantley, who also serves as the Director of the Bookserver Project at the San Francisco-based Internet Archive. “The new Apple app raises questions about the future of EPUB3 and open standards,” PW Features Editor Andrew Albanese tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally. “A longtime supporter of EPUB3, Apple has included proprietary extensions in the Author App. But what’s most notable, Brantley writes, is that Apple’s forking of EPUB3 came via a tool for authoring—not for reading.” In her weekly review of PW reviews, Rose Fox brings word of “a completely G-rated romance.” Edenbrooke: A Proper Romance, by Julianne Donaldson, says Fox, “is one for readers who are tired of the style of romance novel that's sometimes called ‘porn for women.’ The romance is developed through longing glances and passionate letters.”
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