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Workshop Part 1 Creating an eBook & Book Part 2 Interoperability PDF for Paperback Part 3 Publishing Formatting E-Books for Amazon's Kindle Audio in eBooks eBooks and Paperbacks Enquiries

Incorporating Audio into an ePub

The ePub format allows for video and audio though at the time of writing (November 2016) the support from distribution platforms such as Lulu and Amazon(Kindle) is limited.

In the example, test.epub, MP3 Audio has been incorporated into an ePub (eBook) and tested on the Firefox/Ubuntu with EPUBReader.

Audio in HTML

Using "iframe" tag

The audio automatically starts when webpage is loaded.

More at iframe HTML tag

Using "audio controls" Tag

See audio HTML tag

The audio in html (webpage) has been tested on

Audio in ePub

test.epub is a small (86.5kB) ePub incorporating MP3 Audio.

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The eBook has been tested on

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