You saw that right! There’s a revision of EPUB 3 in the works. It’s still a working document, but makes for fascinating reading. Among the changes: Metadata: only title, identifier, creator, publisher, and type will be allowed in the .opf….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 →
Page List — an ebooks’s cross-reference to the print edition’s pagination — is an EPUB3 standard, but it’s a bear to implement coming from an InDesign workflow. Laura Brady (@LauraB7) of Brady Type introduces a time-saving pair of scripts from…Continue Reading →
Who Cares How You Read? Just Read. I saw this headline and said Amen. I’ve never thought the container matters so much as what’s being contained. I certainly enjoy beautiful book design; I just bought Patty Smith’s new memoir (M Train)…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 →
#eprdctn hour: XML Workflow Fact-filled hour with discussions of the hows and whys of the XML workflow, including how to get authors and editors on-board, how to edit XML-based InDesign files, MSWord considerations, and more. https://storify.com/KevinBNGO/xml-workflow EPUBCHECK 4 EpubCheck 4…Continue Reading →
Remember the Trojan Horse? The Greek army hides in a huge horse, and the horse is presented to the citizens of Troy as a gift. They bring the horse inside the city gates, the soldiers spill out, and the rest is…Continue Reading →
#eprdctn hour India Amos (@Indiamos), Senior Content Producer, ePubs, at Amplify Education, led this week’s discussion on documenting workflow. Read the Storify edition here: https://storify.com/LauraB7/eprdctn-documentation-habits EPUB hyphenation Following a spirited discussion on Twitter over how to hyphenate long names and…Continue Reading →
Here are valuable and interesting links. The first two, from Tina Henderson, is all about Working with a Typesetter. Tina is a gifted book designer and compositor, with a great deal of good advice and insight. Enjoy: http://tinahenderson.com/2015/09/14/working-with-a-book-typesetter-part-1/ http://tinahenderson.com/2015/09/15/working-with-a-book-typesetter-part-2/ And this,…Continue Reading →