On November 21, 2011, Infogrid Pacific announced the release of AZARDI 7, the latest version of their ePUB reader software. Today they announced the release of ePUB3 Unleashed, a “a highly interactive ePub3. The book is pure HTML5, CSS3, SVG, MathML and Javascript.” Why...
I dropped by my parents’ house this morning to help my mom put her twenty-five pound turkey in the oven. They received the morning Flint Journal, so after the bird was in the oven I sat down and flipped through the Black Friday (or now Thursday in most cases)...
When you make changes to the TOC.NCX file in an ePUB—moving front matter to the back of the ePUB; adding additional content—one of the frustrations is that the playOrder in the TOC.NCX file has to be renumbered. If your book has a short TOC.NCX this might...
Liz Castro has a great post at her blog Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis titled “Where should an ebook begin?” In the post, she looks are various readers and what they usually show as the first page of an eBook of John Grisham’s The Litigator. As she shows, both...
With the recent unanimous vote to elevate by the IDPF membership elevate EPUB 3.0 to a final IDPF Recommended Specification, the ePUB 3.0 specificationis now final (or as final as it can get before HTML5 is final). This means that in the coming months we are...
We are officially launching the ePUBSecrets blog today, a new blog to help you with all things ePUB. This blog was the brainchild of David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion, the fine folks behind InDesignSecrets. As speakers and trainers of designers, production...
