This is a guest post from Franco A. Alvarado is a freelance ebook developer and a project manager at a Boston-based academic publisher. Maybe you’ve seen this script before: import re i = 0 def replace(m): global i i +=…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Chris Wait (@cdwait), who is Ebooks Manager at New Directions Publishing, where he digitizes all the books. This is the second of a two-part series on digital poetry and converting to MOBI Theory: The…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 →
This is a special guest post/rant from Kris Vetter Tomes, an ebook developer at Lerner Publishing in Minnesota. She has feelings about the print/digital debate and wants you to know about them. In a recent Guardian article, How eBooks Lost…Continue Reading →
Chad Chelius is back with what has to be one of the fastest turnarounds in script development. Last week’s scrollable-sidebar for fixed-layout EPUB3 and Publish Online is now a script. Last week, I wrote up a post on EPUBSecrets.com describing a…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 →
Steve Ingle of WordCo completes his deep dive into indexing for ebooks. Steve will take part in #eprdctn hour on Twitter next Wednesday, September 9, 2015, at 11AM (EST). If you miss it, see the Resources page for the Storify compilation….Continue Reading →
Keith Snyder (@noteon), author of recent epubsecrets post The Portuguese Case, hosted today’s #eprdctn hour. If you’re an ebook developer, check out this Storify summary of the session (assembled by @BookDesignGirl; thanks, Colleen Cunningham). There are lots of good ideas for…Continue Reading →
It takes the most dogged of ebook developers to solve the toughest problems. This week, Keith Snyder proves his mettle as he solves a cross-device problem and then digs into a pesky swipe issue. “You come recommended,” he said. “Should be a straightforward…Continue Reading →
This is the first installment in a 3-part series on Indexes in ebooks, written by Stephen Ingle, president of WordCo Indexing Services. We’ll publish the final 2 pieces over the next few weeks. Steve will also be a guest on #eprdctn hour on September…Continue Reading →