What's inside an EPUB?

- [Narrator] Let's take a peek inside the actual ePubs…components, because I think it helps anyone…who is working with ebooks to understand…what makes up an epub.…I have open, behind my finder window,…the English Cottage Gardens refillable ePub.…Let's look at it, if you haven't used ADE,…Adobe digital editions, up till now…it's a pretty good ebook reader…available for both Mac and Windows.…I'm looking at it right now in double page view.…It defaults to single page view…so if yours looks like that just go up…to the reading menu and chose double page view.…

Here's the navigational TOC and I can jump back and forth.…It's just a regular epub, but let's take a look…at the inside of this epub.…I am going to go back to the finder,…now if I were on windows I could just rename this file…to .zip instead of .epub I could just actually…edit the file name and when I do that…I would get a warning in both windows and Mac.…In windows it'll work, in Macintosh it doesn't.…That is I can change this to .zip in windows…and then chose extract all from the right click menu.…