So you’ve made an EPUB from InDesign and it looks reasonably okay. Can you ship? Well, you can do anything you want but I would suggest that there is still some heavy lifting that must be done before you send…Continue Reading →
This is an update of a Medium article published a few years ago which aimed to pull together places to learn more about the how-to of ebook development work. As always, please comment with corrections, additions, an compliments. There is…Continue Reading →
This is the first of a series of posts on accessibility in ebooks, focussing on how to use the tools we already have to level-up our ebooks. Like the advent of print publishing in the 16th century, the publishing world…Continue Reading →
I just did some trouble-shooting on an EPUB exported from InDesign, with InDesign writing the CSS. Images appeared fine on iBooks, but were distorted on the Kindle platform. I dug into the EPUB, and found this CSS for the image:…Continue Reading →
Chad Chelius is back with what has to be one of the fastest turnarounds in script development. Last week’s scrollable-sidebar for fixed-layout EPUB3 and Publish Online is now a script. Last week, I wrote up a post on EPUBSecrets.com describing a…Continue Reading →
At the InDesign Conference in Denver last month, Chad Chelius demonstrated how to add a scrolling sidebar to the Fixed-Layout EPUB exported from InDesign. This is one of my favorite iBooks Author widgets – it allows for a practically unlimited amount…Continue Reading →
After a couple of weeks without a roundup, we have an abundance of reading, ideas, tools, and conference news. Let’s get to it! ebook Frontmatter, Including Page List Joshua Tallent continues his series on best practices for formatting frontmatter. His…Continue Reading →
InDesign’s Object Styles contain multitudes of possibilities to streamline EPUB export. At the InDesign Conference in Denver last week, I saw a demo that used Object Styles to automatically style unformatted text. Follow these steps: In Object Style Options, choose the Paragraph…Continue Reading →
I’m evaluating an EPUB project that is seemingly pretty straightforward, if long. It’s a dictionary, 1700 pages, 85,000+ entries. In looking through the pages, I realized that all those diacriticals that help pronunciation, including popular items like the schwa, the bilabial implosive,…Continue Reading →
New Nook Glowlight released (it’s waterproof) Barnes and Noble has released an updated Nook Glowlight. Nate Hoffelder barely got to use his new device before BN rolled out a software update. Read about the update and early impressions here. The…Continue Reading →