Japan Electronic Publishing Association

Japan Electronic Publishing Association Profile and History

About the Japan Electronic Publishing Association (JEPA) https://www.jepa.or.jp/jepa/ JEPA was established in 1986 by publishers, printing companies, computer makers, and software houses playing a central role to promote electronic publishing. Activities over the past 23 years include the formulations of CD-ROM specifications and an XML schema for books, the popularization of Unicode fonts, to dri ve forward a plan of an electronic copyright deposit library, the promotion of e-readers, and dictionary data format reviews. There are currently 83 member companies.