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 →
#eprdctn Hour: Adding read aloud content Ken Jones of CircularFlo led an interesting discussion about inserting read aloud features to Fixed Layout books. It’s a lot of hand work, but his product offers a solution. Adobe Max: Anne-Marie Concepción’s session on…Continue Reading →
#eprdctn hour: An open roundtable https://storify.com/LauraB7/eprdctn-roundtable There was no set topic this week, so almost anything and everything about ebooks was discussed. Harry Potter: Another edition Pottermore has released new, iBooks-Author created versions of the series (available only on iBooks,…Continue Reading →