W3C

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Publishing Business Group Telecon

12 Nov 2019

Attendees

Present
ShinyaTakami
Regrets
Chair
Daihei Shiohama
Scribe
liisamk

Contents


<Daihei> Liisa,sorry, for some reason, I cannot enter in the GoToMeeting now. Will you please headstart the meeting now?

<Daihei> I will join in ASAP

<scribe> scribenick: liisamk

Daihei: EPUBcheck fundraising is needed to move things forward
... there needs to be about $50K more for after Jan

Yoshi: $10K forthcoming from APL after board meeting

Daihei: other parties we need to get in touch with
... maybe the task force and Bill, Daihei, Yoshi-san to get in touch with all parties globally
... see if there are any other chances to make fund investment

Liisa: this next phase is a technical restabilization that is very important

Daihei: critical to get funds from all over the world

EPUB 3.2 and EPUBcheck 4.2 adoption

Daihei: ask Japanese members how the adoption is happening

<MURATA> I believe that EPUB 3.2 is everywhere.

Kamata-san: certified that adoption in Japan of epub 3.2 and epubcheck 4.2 have been working find
... error message issues is going ok

Murata-san: says EPUB 3.2 is everywhere now

Yoshi-san: says that MDJ, the ebook distributor, says there is no problem with EPUB 3.2
... major publishers, the 4 majors, have no problem with EPUB 3.2
... epubcheck is working fine

<MURATA> We need more bugs in epubcheck for fundraising :-)

<MURATA> No problems, no budget.

Kamata-san: pointed out the comments from call that people think things are working well and they don't see an issue to solve with the validation
... making funds available seems difficult to understand without an explanation of why it makes sense for Japan

Liisa: understand the issues with needing to understand why the tech changes make sense
... congratulations to Japanese market for adopting so quickly
... US and Europe reports were that adoption is going well, but is not done everywhere yet
... may be the end of year

Daihei: encouraging people to stay engaged and want to find out from Taiwan
... encourage also involvement in EPUB roadmap, which we will discuss in a bit

Accessibility

Liisa: for the European market there is a lot of interest in accessibility coming from new EU laws

<MURATA> +q

Liisa: in EU need to get books and websites done by 2025

Murata-san: new laws in Japan is not as strong as Europe, there will be meetings very soon
... we'll see what happens from that meeting
... summary from what Italian publishers are doing and looked at ACE and SMART

Daihei: ask if received white paper from Italy

Liisa: in the US there are fewer legal requirements, but there is starting to be more interest
... the publishers are looking at what the Europe laws mean

Murata-san: things are moving slowly in Japan, but steadily
... things are changing

Liisa: accessibility in Canada is still moving slowly though their laws require it

Daihei: two subjects becoming sensitive to privacy - GDPR compliance and privacy issues are serious in Europe
... Jan 2020 California will require strict privacy compliance
... attention to internet privacy and accessibility will become larger

After EPUB 3.2, What Next?

UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: EPUB 3.2 make a sizable market for manga
... EPUB 3 and 3.x specs and ebook ecosystems are compatible and no issues for the business
... industry and publishers are basically interested in maintaining the compatibility to EPUB 3
... parts of the online business is being changed and publishing cannot be left behind
... we need to discuss where we are going to
... sent link to the CG roadmap document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mAqdj2HTN7p8cgncToA7yRCKmz5trLTZ4ATI7trl7KM/edit#heading=h.eszf0tmwgc6u

<scribe> ...new features like: forms of content, navigation for large complex docs, dynamic advertising, non-linear content, improve css support

UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: what has more needs in the publishing industry?
... would like to hear thoughts about how we make progress from here to the future
... comments?

<MURATA> +q

Murata-san: what is current plan for EPUB accessibility techniques?
... current spec is from IDPF and is required

Daihei: accessibility is an issue in the roadmap

Liisa: movement from IDPF accessibility to WCAG/ARIA evolution and Luc working to get to ISO approval

Survey

Liisa: Publishing@W3C and SC want outreach to people in our communities and broadly beyond to discuss the future needs for publishers
... survey draft working on now, but hope the survey would help us get to conversations with people about what we all need
... survey to go out in 2020

Daihei: conversations with the media and entertainment groups at W3C and discuss sharing thoughts between publishing and media
... going to have co-chairs call to get discussion started and share info
... the Internet of Things WG also has interest in working together
... want to see where there are future issues and intersections

Takami-san: he already explained his plan for maintenance of EPUB 3.2 at TPAC
... different type of media content like video and new revenue for advertising could be areas where business needs may arise

Daihei: haven't approached immersive web WG in the W3C, maybe that is interesting
... crossover for publishing for VR and AR seems something that will happen
... would like to talk to them about collaboration as well

<scribe> ...new year we will have draft of survey and will distribute around the world

Next Steps

Daihei: approach organizations about EPUBcheck fundraising
... will come back with info about the meetings with other WGs

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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