Alexander Halser (last year) wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:43 amWith the recent update of our free eWriter HTML compiler (http://www.e-writer.com) we have redesigned the viewer app on a completely new code base, that is in principle cross-platform. The viewer is now available in the Microsoft Store for Windows and we do plan to make it available for other platforms as well. First MacOS, but iOS and Android could follow.
Any news on the iOS and Android implementations?
The beauty of the eWriter eBooks is that they have a distinctive file extension. [...] EPUB 3 is not so simple, because EPUB 3.2 still shares the same file extension ".epub". But it's in fact a very different file type than, say, EPUB 2.0 and the viewer responsible for EPUB files in general might not be able to display it. It doesn't help either, to point the user to a particular EPUB viewer that is capable of EPUB 3, because there is only one default viewer for ".epub" on every system, and that one will most likely take precedence.
Understood. Have you considered implementing EPUB 3.2 as the native format for your ewriter viewer but continuing to publish with the ".ewriter" extension? That would give the best of both:
Maintains the benefits of your proprietary file extension;
Authors can rename output to .epub if they are publishing to an environment (e.g. internal walled garden) where 3.2 is supported;
One international NGO I work with recently did a survey among staff (around 1000) as to how they wanted their training and information delivered, and 'phone' was the overwhelming answer. Many work in areas with no connection.