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The recent developments in the digital publishing domain have promoted the use of open formats for digital publishing. This paper presents a study that has been carried out using the EPUB 2.0 format along with HTML5 and JavaScript technologies showing how a digital book can embed HTML5 applications that interact with the user and report back to a publishing server (reader/student analytics).
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Gavrilis, D., Angelis, S., Tsoulos, I. (2013). Building Interactive Books Using EPUB and HTML5. In: Angelis, C.T., Fotiadis, D., Tzallas, A.T. (eds) Ambient Media and Systems. AMBI-SYS 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 118. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_4
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