tutorial to create e-book read application - epub file formate

Question

hi all,

I am making an application of e book reading, in that i want to perform some operations like change text color, font, select a text etc.

I come to know that iphone os 4.0 and ipad are now supporting epub file formate, but I am not able to know how to create such kind of application. If any one knows how to create such applications please let me know.

thanks in advance

Here are some links regarding e-pub

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/

Answer 1

Its not a tutorial, but you might want to use the source-code of Calibre's ebook viewer component as a reference (note that Calibre is GPL licensed).

Otherwise, given that ePub is a zipped xml format, I'd get a copy of the spec and then start learning about xml parsing in python.

Answer 2

There is a full tutorial for creating mobi and epubs on www.katiebooks.ca.