EPUB 3 Working Group

The mission of the Working Group is to maintain and develop the EPUB 3 family of specifications, to represent the EPUB community in the W3C, and to support EPUB 3 content creators and consumers by further advancing, refining, and clarifying the current EPUB 3 specification.

The co-chairs of the group are Dave Cramer (Invited Expert), Wendy Reid (Rakuten Kobo), and Shinya Takami (Kadokawa/Bookwalker). The staff contact is Ivan Herman. The group has been closed on the 20th of June, 2023; the maintenance of the EPUB documents have been taken over by the Publishing Maintenance Working Group.

Recent Meeting Minutes

Group details

Publication status and milestones
Participants
Charter
Patent Policy Status
Open issues
- Specification issues
- General WG issues

GitHub repositories

List of WG repositories.

Mailing lists

public-epub-wg@w3.org: the group’s primary mailing list. Group members are automatically signed up. The archives are publicly visible, and anyone can post a mail.
member-epub-wg@w3.org: the group’s member confidential mailing list. Group members are automatically signed up. The archives are visible to W3C members only, and only persons with a W3C user accounts can post a mail.
group-epub-testing@w3.org: list dedicated to the testing activity of the Working Group. The archives are only publicly visible, any anyone can post a mail.
group-epub-wg-chairs@w3.org: list for chairs and W3C staff contact(s). The archives are only visible to the chairs and the W3C staff, but anyone can post a mail.