Epub is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that the text display can be optimized for the particular display device used by the reader of the EPUB-formatted book. Google, sony and apple choose epub as format for their ebook.

Threepress, expert consulting services is announcing an early prototype of epubjs, a pure Javascript ePub reader. The entire application is only 11K (plus 53K for jQuery 1.3).

This is a pretty rough release, still very messy, but They hoping to evolve it into a lightweight reader that authors or publishers could add to their websites with minimal technical expertise. They said that Currently the reader works only in Firefox, but when open the demo page using firefox and google chrome browser, it’s work properly.

Requirements: jQuery 1.3
Demo: http://threepress.org/static/epubjs
License: BSD License

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