This article was written by Laurent Le Meur, CTO of European Digital Reading Lab, and Jiminy Panoz. Starting July 3, Jiminy will work on the Readium 2 CSS and be one of your privileged interlocutors throughout the process. Most of you…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Julian Calderazi. Julian is an ebook developer from digitalbe.com in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We normally read that ‘producing good books is producing accessible books’, which is true. But one of the key ways to…Continue Reading →
As part of their Born Accessible initiative, Benetech is launching a new program called Global Certified Accessible. An exciting new program, and the first of it’s kind, it will verify that reviewed content meets rigorous requirements of accessible content. The…Continue Reading →
I am writing today as an advocate for greater attention to accessibility in the production of ebooks. I am aware that the level of attention and care that ebooks generally get can be described as, well, passing. Inside of many…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Ben Dugas at Kobo. Ben is the Manager, Content Display Quality and Production at Rakuten Kobo Inc. in Toronto. A few times a year I’ll find myself in a conversation with Laura Brady or some…Continue Reading →
Here at EPUB Secrets we are very lucky to have a broad, global community of smart developers who want to share their R&D with us. This Guest Post is from Jiminy Panoz, French ebook developer extraordinaire. I love modern CSS….Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →