Distribution & Metadata
EPUB 3.4: What Publishers Should Change, Validate, and Leave Alone
Understand the EPUB 3.4 draft, test new features, validate with EPUBCheck 5.4.0, and decide what to change or preserve in existing ebooks.
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Distribution & Metadata
Book metadata, discoverability, ISBNs, retailer systems, distribution, and publishing infrastructure.
Distribution & Metadata
EPUB Annotations 1.0: What Publishers Should Prepare for Now
W3C published a new EPUB Annotations 1.0 Working Draft on September 24, 2026. Publishers should preserve stable structure, identifiers, privacy expectations, and edition relationships before annotations become portable across reading systems.
Distribution & Metadata
Google Search Profiles for Publishers: The Multi-Brand Claiming Standard
Google expanded Search profiles to more U.S. publishers and added multi-account management. Use this claiming, evidence, and governance standard before rolling it across a publishing network.
Distribution & Metadata
EPUB Accessibility 1.2: The Publisher Release Checklist
W3C issued a September 2026 draft of EPUB Accessibility 1.2. Use this release gate for content, conformance, metadata, evaluation, and reader support.
Distribution & Metadata
Google AI Search Publisher Controls: The Standard Publishers Need
Google has rolled out worldwide controls and reporting for publisher visibility in AI Search. Use this framework to decide, test, document, and review participation.
Distribution & Metadata
AI Search Is Small, but It Matters: Why Publishers Should Prepare Before It Becomes Big
AI search traffic is still emerging, but publishers should prepare now by building authority, structured content, and trusted information sources for the future of discovery.