My quest for find ways to create rich mutli-media eBooks continues. As of today, I have not found any interesting authoring tools that are based on open-standards like the ePUB format. Several videos of prototypes for content delivery are floating around the interwebs, some of which I relays in a previous post here (see UPDATED: Popular Science's Magazine of the Future. Is this the Textbook of the Future, too?).

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For months, I've been casting about for tools that will allow me to create mathematical eBook documents in the ePUB format. I chose that format because it's open, supported by the major readers (e.g., Kindle, Nook, iPad software), and can be authored in a way that's very similar to authoring HTML documents.

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