DAISY Latest Developments and Support for and Math

Exponential Growth of the EPUB Market

• In 2010 in the USA EPUB will account for 10% of all publishing sales!
• Sales continue on exponential growth
• If sales grow at the current rate, sometime in the year 2013 EPUB sales will surpass print sales.

EPUB and DAISY Coming Together

• DAISY 4 and EPUB 3 are under revision
• DAISY has a leadership role in the IDPF
• Markus Gylling, DAISY CTO, is leading the EPUB revision

Some key features in EPUB 3

• EPUB will support all languages
• Support for rich layout needed in textbooks
• Support for MathML
• Video and synchronized audio included

Overview of the support for MathML in the DAISY Standard

• Two types of Support in DAISY Reading systems
• What do we mean by “native”
• Importance of Native support in Reading systems
• Demo of the ReadHere by GH