This is a guest post from Melissa deJesus, an associate production editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A fuller bio is at the bottom on this piece. I finally made the pilgrimage to ebookcraft. You might not immediately think of a…Continue Reading →
This guest post is from Laura Bowman, Publicist and Ebook Production Manager at Pajama Press. Thank you @ebookcraft for a fantastic conference, and thank you to all the industry experts for being so friendly and approachable! Maybe #eprdctn isnt so…Continue Reading →
The #eprdctn hour on Wednesday, February 21 was a one-week-late valentine to our readers: ebook developers talking about how we make the most user-friendly ebooks we can. There were lots of ideas and strategies. It’s not for the feint of…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Teresa Elsey, an #eprdctn regular. The February 14 edition of the #eprdctn chat focused on link rot. The below is just a piece of the whole wide-ranging conversation; as usual, many thanks to the…Continue Reading →
Robust navigation is a hallmark of EPUB3. Along with the reading system table of contents and the inside-the-book contents, Landmarks and Page List add value and functionality. They’re simple additions that make a book more accessible and easier to use….Continue Reading →
I had an interesting experience today with a MOBI. In a book with lots of images, many were out of place. They were correctly placed in the EPUB edition, but somehow moved around in the conversion to MOBI. Sleuth time….Continue Reading →
This is a guest interview with Ken Jones of Circular Software. You can contact Ken on twitter @CircularKen on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/kenjones or through the website circularsoftware.com. Some people really dislike fixed-layout ebooks, how do you defend them? I usually start off by agreeing with…Continue Reading →
Kristin Brodeur tells how she won the ebookcraft challenge Starting in 2016, the ebookcraft conference has included an ebook design challenge, “So You Think You Can Code.” In 2017, the winner was Kristin Brodeur of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In this…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Tzviya Siegman, co-chair of the W3C Publishing Working Group. epubcheck needs you Do you use epubcheck? Most developers who have even thought about EPUB rely heavily on epubcheck, the open source validation tool for EPUB….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 →