Indeed. But Jaquith is quick to add that their digital magazine is still a far cry from the ink-and-paper version. “Photographs are smaller, there is no hyphenation, we can’t control widows and orphans (and the occasional blank page).” So if the ePub format and its devices are so limited, why not follow the lead of most magazines, including the much-ballyhooed Wired and Popular Science, and produce stand-alone iPad apps? Jaquith thinks that’s a mistake: Releasing issues of magazines as apps is bad for readers and publishers alike. True, the ePub format is not ideal for magazines, but the ePub Revision Working Group has a new release slated for next spring that will remedy that. VQR has been around for 85 years. We take the long view. The open, simple, accessible, indexable, archivable ePub format is clearly the best option for us and for our readers. (via Better Reading on the iPad: iBooks 1.1, VQR, & PDF | The FontFeed)