The IDPF announced the Readium Project, an open source initiative “to develop a comprehensive reference implementation of the ePUB 3 standard,” built on the WebKit rendering engine. The project is designed to “significantly accelerate EPUB 3 adoption and increase implementation consistency,” IDPF executive director Bill McCoy says. It has wide support from many organizations and etailers–though not Apple, or Amazon (which is not an IDPF member). Library City has a follow-up q&a with McCoy. Among his remarks, “given that PDF support is increasingly built-in to browsers (e.g. Chrome ships with PDF support) it’s logical to imagine built-in EPUB support in […]