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 →
There was a lively #eprdctn hour today, all about metadata. Joshua Tallent and Tzviya Siegman provided much valuable information on EPUB-based metadata, ONIX submissions and updating, and new proposed EPUB3.1 inside-the-EPUB metadata. Read the Storify edition here. Next week (Feb…Continue Reading →
PePcon 2016 PePcon — The Print + ePublishing Conference — will be in San Diego from June 5–8, 2016. From now until December, you can sign up and save $200. Use code BFRI. #eprdctn hour This past Wednesday saw a Dumb Question Amnesty hour…Continue Reading →
Professional development for #eprdctn developers This week’s #eprdctn hour was all about what we read, where we go for advice, how we cope. And don’t forget: you can suggest a topic for an upcoming #eprdctn hour, or offer to host one…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 →
Well, there really wasn’t a dumb question among them. Lots of discussion about getting clean export from InDesign; image zoom on devices; page-list construction within InDesign; dealing with an InDesign book for EPUB export; spec’ing color in CSS. Here’s the…Continue Reading →
Steve Ingle of WordCo completes his deep dive into indexing for ebooks. Steve will take part in #eprdctn hour on Twitter next Wednesday, September 9, 2015, at 11AM (EST). If you miss it, see the Resources page for the Storify compilation….Continue Reading →
Keith Snyder (@noteon), author of recent epubsecrets post The Portuguese Case, hosted today’s #eprdctn hour. If you’re an ebook developer, check out this Storify summary of the session (assembled by @BookDesignGirl; thanks, Colleen Cunningham). There are lots of good ideas for…Continue Reading →
Tina Henderson led a discussion on iBooks Author, the Apple-only app for creating multitouch books. She provided lots of insight, wishes, hacks, and links to other valuable discussions and resources. Also covered: EPUB3 export from iBA. Read about it here:…Continue Reading →