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 →
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 →