Jason Boog at GalleyCat has collected links to the publishing and marketing guidelines for most of the major self-publishing outlets in his post “Free eBook Formatting & Marketing Guides for Writers.”
The post includes links to Smashwords, Amazon Kindle,...
Ben Milander has released a new Javascript called Create Index for ePub that will help you create a clickable index for EPUB files. Given the difficulty of creating a linked index when exporting from InDesign, this script may be valuable to many.
Here are...
Today is the start of Digital Book World 2013. This is the first of the annual digital publishing conference each year. The first day of the conference is devoted to pre-conference workshops, and one workshop that should be of special interest to anyone working...
A new version of the Kindle/Mobi Decoder, including Python script and AppleScript versions if available here. The links in the very first post will take you to the most recent version of both scripts.
Do you use MobiUnpack? What are you using it for? Do...
While there was only about three minutes of the October 23, 2012 Apple event dedicated to iBooks and the updates to iBooks and iBooks Author (you can watch those three minutes on CNET here ), it was enough to create a stir in the #ePrdctn/eBook creator community....
Not to be outdone by Apple’s release of updates to iBooks and iBooks Author, the Amazon Kindle Publishing Team announced today the release of KindleGen 2.7 and Kindle Preview 2.7. Here is what we get in the update:
The updated KindleGen 2.7 software includes:
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Here is an overview of the Apple event, especially as it applies to eBooks and the EPUB format.
iPhone 5
Tim Cook said that iPhone 5 is off to a phenomenal start, selling more than 5 million units over the opening weekend. He then said there is no better place...
The IDPF released a new version of EPUBCheck, their EPUB validation tool. This version continues to validate both EPUB 2.0.1 and EPUB 3.0. The new verison is 3.0-RC-1. You can download the code.google.com here. I have also uploaded the file to the EPUBSecrets...
This weekend, Nate Hoffelder (@thDigitalReader) of The Digital Reader posted “iBooks 3.0 Coming Next Week – Adds More Support for Epub3” tracking clues that the Apple press event on October 23 will not only include an announcement of the iPad Mini but also...
If EPUBs are to serve as textbooks for mathematics and science, or if they are even to convey ideas from these fields, it is important that they can properly display complex mathematic equations and scientific formulas. On Websites and in digital formats, this...
