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We would like to congratulate our business partners Delivros on their merger with Orell Füssli Thalia AG! The new exciting venture, Delivros Orell Füssli AG, is promised to create a leading provider of Switzerland’s printed and electronic content for schools, companies and libraries, which will benefit from the combined expertise in retail and delivery of digital content. We wish you the best of luck as a new venture, in successfully accomplishing your professional goals and continuing to deliver the best reading experience to your customers!

We are excited to announce the release of Readium 0.31. Important to mention that while the work on “Readium 2” and Readium Web is continuing, “Readium 1” is now viewed to be in “maintenance mode”. This means fixing high priority bugs such as crash, data loss, etc., with no new features being developed or planned. As a part of the improvements and enhancements in this release, Readium updates include:

In the age of digital literacy, more and more authors choose several formats to publish their work in: printed and digital. If much of the copyright process is clear with printed media, it is not straightforward at all when it comes to the digital copyright laws. That’s why it is important for modern authors to know what eBook copyright is and how to protect one’s work on the Internet. Let’s break it down!

We are beyond excited to have Evident Point’s Lead Developer Juan Corona head over to the sunny San Francisco to assist Hypothes.is in hosting a workshop at the I Annotate 2018 conference. I Annotate 2018 provides attendees with a unique opportunity to learn about integration and customization of annotation software for various use cases in any platform or publication, including EPUB and PDF formats. I Annotate is taking place June 6 & 7 at Fort Mason Arts & Culture Center in San Francisco with writer and activist Barret Brown as a keynote speaker. To see Juan, as well as share ideas and experience with leading thinkers from all over the world, and from various industries, including education, science and publishing, register at http://iannotate.org. Evident Point is proud to have the members of our team participate in international events, including the most recent DPub 2018 summit in Berlin, as well as the upcoming I Annotate 2018 conference. As experts in the field, we understand the importance of providing members of our team with an opportunity to meet and share experience with progressive professionals like themselves. For more information, please visit the official website of I Annotate 2018: http://iannotate.org  

The W3C EPUB 3 Community Group has started work on EPUB 3.2 spec. The main goal – gracefully roll back some of the changes in EPUB 3.1 and create a specification that is fully backward compatible with EPUB 3.0.1, while still retaining most features introduced in EPUB 3.1.

We are pleased to announce that Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare of Russian Federation (Rospotrebnadzor) launched a distant training system for its employees based on ActiveTextbook.