eBook Wake-Up Call

E-books, why So Old-Fashioned? Here's a Web Wakeup Call

Groups that advance Web and e-book technology want to join forces. That could make e-books livelier, richer and easier to read online.

Stephen Shankland | May 10, 2016

For all the supposed disruption that e-books brought to the publishing industry, the digital versions look still look an awful lot like the paper ones you could have bought a century ago.
Nighttime orange text to avoid sleep disturbance is nice, but digital text on a tablet is basically the same as ink text on paper. 

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/ivan_herman/the-convergence-of-publishing-and-the-web

<more at http://www.cnet.com/news/e-books-why-so-old-fashioned-heres-a-web-wakeup-call-from-w3c/; related articles and links: https://www.w3.org/TR/pwp/ (Portable Web Publications for the Open Web Platform. W3C Working Draft 26 November 2015) and https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ (+Video) (Visualizing Algorithms. June 26, 2014); further: http://eboocz.com/ebooks/epub-3-1-bringing-ebooks-in-line-with-the-open-web-platform/ (EPUB 3.1 – Bringing Ebooks in Line with the Open Web Platform. February 3, 2016)>