I have been thinking lately about how different my habits as an ebook developer are now than they were one, two, or five years ago. And about how that evolution is absolutely about working toward making better ebooks. I can…Continue Reading →
The slow adoption of EPUB 3 was a major thread to come out of the Publishing Summit at W3C’s TPAC, even though it was recommended in October 2011. I have been trying to puzzle out why it hasn’t been more…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Teresa Elsey from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The W3C put on its first Publishing Summit on November 9 and 10 in San Francisco, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary/Advisory Committee week (TPAC), when the…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Paolo Albert. Fixed-layout: the kryptonite to a11y A couple of years ago I was invited to a round table with the Publisher’s Italian Association to introduce our software solution PubCoder to some members of the…Continue Reading →
The latest version of InDesign CC (version 13.0) has precious little for ebook developers but what was improved is impactful. My personal favourite is classless HTML. One of the most frustrating parts of InDesign is the <div>/<span> soup that it…Continue Reading →
The word on the street is that the majority of ebooks submitted to various retailers are still native EPUB 2. Ben Dugas of Kobo reports that EPUB 2 makes up about 70% of incoming content. Wait, what? Let’s dissect this…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from alumni EPUB Secrets editor Kevin Callahan. He recently discovered a Look Inside-bug and wants to share it with you. And to talk about therapuetic powers of ice cream. Where am I? In everyday life,…Continue Reading →
This guest post is from Jiminy Panoz, who spends his days wrestling CSS and vendors and doing all the eprdctn dirty work. One major part of the Readium CSS project is collecting feedback and queries from the #eprdctn community. This…Continue Reading →
Making better ebooks from InDesign is a consistent theme here at EPUB Secrets. This is a guest post from Felipe Santos, a noted Adobe educator from Brazil, with many excellent tips and tricks for you to bring to your workflow….Continue Reading →
What’s happening with digital books at the W3C? Well, lots of things. The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) hosted a webinar on just this topic yesterday. Here is a summary. Bill Kasdorf of Apex Covantage summarized the merger of the…Continue Reading →