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Nominations are now open for eight seats on the IDPF Board of Directors. The IDPF Board (fourteen members including the President) is elected by the members to manage the organization’s business and affairs. This includes developing the vision and strategic plan and providing oversight and direction to staff and volunteers carrying out the work. Directors serve two-year terms. At least one new Director will be elected, as one seat in this class is vacant. Self-nominations are due by May 31, 2016 5:00pm U.S. ET and are open to anyone who is or becomes an IDPF member organization's Primary Representative. Please email your intention to run together with a self-nomination statement to [email protected].
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Web Inventor and W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee shares vision of Publishing on the Web in his keynote address at IDPF DigiCon at BEA 2016
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A preliminary FAQ targeted for IDPF Members is now available at http://idpf.org/faq-for-idpf-members-about-proposal-to-merge-with-w3c. For the full press release on plans to explore a W3C and IDPF combination see here. For public FAQ please see http://www.w3.org/2016/05/digpub-faq.html.
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The EPUB 3 Working Group is pleased to announce that the second Editor's Draft of EPUB 3.1 is now available for community review. The previous Editors Draft, published in January, included some potentially controversial changes, in effect as 'trial balloons". Based on community feedback, some of these proposed changes have now been modified or redacted.
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The IDPF will host a special meeting for members at BEA 2016 (Chicago) on Wednesday, May 11 after the conclusion of our May 10-11 IDPF DigiCon conference. The meeting will take place from 2:00 to 4:00pm in McCormick Place room W196.
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IDPF DigiCon @BEA (fka Digital Book) has been hailed as the absolutely critical, best value and most informative conference in the industry, attracting an audience of nearly 1,000 professionals annually, of which 60% are C-Suite executives, senior directors, or above.
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The IDPF is pleased to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, will serve as the keynote speaker at the upcoming IDPF DigiCon @BEA.
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Now Available: A Library of Opportunity
Open eBooks is now available to millions of students offering unprecedented access to thousands of digital books.
What if we could ensure that every student, no matter where they live or the income of their parents, could get access to a great book? What if they had access to not just one book, but a library of thousands of titles – and could read them from anywhere?
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A 2nd Editors Draft of the EPUB for Education Profile has been announced today. This new profile specification includes:
IDPF DigiCon @ BEA 2016 will be held Tuesday-Wednesday, May 10-11, 2016, at BookExpo America (McCormick Place, Chicago).
IDPF DigiCon @ BEA is the premier digital conference in the industry that focuses on all the key issues we face in advancing publishing in an increasingly digital world.
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