Hindawi Adds Support for the ePUB Digital Format

[Paul Peters <paul.peters@hindawi.com>]

Press Release

Hindawi Adds Support for the ePUB Digital Format
January 12, 2009

Hindawi is pleased to announce the addition of the ePUB digital 
format as one of the available formats on its online platform for 
all of its journal and book publications. ePUB is a modern, 
industry standard format developed by the International Digital 
Publishing Forum, of which Hindawi is a member, as an XML format 
for reflowable digital books and publications. ePUB is widely 
supported on computer systems as well as on digital reading 
devices such as the Sony digital book reader. A number of sample 
articles that have been released can be found at 
http://www.hindawi.com/epub.html.

"ePUB allows us to produce and make available a single digital 
file that combines the benefits of the high fidelity typography 
typically found in PDFs along with the benefits of XML structured 
content, high resolution images, scalable vector graphics, and 
font embedding," said Fatma Sultan, Hindawi's Production Manager. 
"It has gained strong support from a number of book publishers. 
However, it has not been used before for highly technical 
materials such as those published in our STM journals and books. 
We are pleased to be on the forefront of the format adoption wave 
in these areas."

Hindawi currently publishes all of its journal articles in PDF 
and HTML with full MathML support. The integration of ePUB 
production within Hindawi's current XML workflow makes the ePUB 
production seamless. All articles published since the beginning 
of 2008 shall be reprocessed in order to generate ePUB files. 
Going forward, all articles and books will be released in ePUB in 
addition to the other current formats.

For more information please contact:

Paul Peters
Head of Business Development
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
paul.peters@hindawi.com

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a rapidly growing scholarly publisher
located in Cairo, Egypt. Hindawi currently publishes more than 150 fully
Open Access journals covering a wide range of subjects in Science,
Technology, and Medicine and has a growing scholarly book publishing
program. The company's web site is located at http://www.hindawi.com