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Is there a viewer or plugin of any kind that would allow an .epub document to be viewable on a web page? A Google search turned up tons of installable epub viewing desktop software but I couldn't seem to find anything for embedding this format on a web page. Perhaps you folks have some insight into this?
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EPUB is a popular format for electronic data interchange because it can be an open format and is based on HTML, as opposed to Amazon's proprietary format for Kindle readers.
epub files are just HTML/XML and CSS, so you could easily open the epub container (it's a zip), then parse the XML inside using a language like PHP.
It shouldn't be too difficult to do that.
The format looks like:
--ZIP Container--
mimetype
META-INF/
container.xml
OPS/
book.opf
chapter1.xhtml
ch1-pic.png
css/
style.css
myfont.otf
Here's an example of the content you might find in chapter1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Pride and Prejudice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
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