This is a guest post from Dave Cramer, a co-chair of the W3C Community Group, an ebookcraft favourite, and an #eprdctn old-timer. It takes much more than a village to make an ebook. Authors, publishers, developers, distributors, retailers, and readers…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 →
Once you’ve got your ebook workflow down, paying attention to the nuances of accessibility, how do you check that work? There is no substitute for experience, but I have a couple of tools that can help. Use these tools to…Continue Reading →
If ebooks are something you think about, or make, or sell, or catalogue, then ebookcraft is relevant to you. It is a two day conference with a laser focus on ebooks, and designed for ebook developers and ebook-adjacent people. It…Continue Reading →
For the past month or so, I have been working on a series of accessibility audits for a number of Canadian publishers on behalf of NNELS. The content was broad and diverse, from children’s picture books and novels, to complex…Continue Reading →
Welcome to the latest installment of the EPUBSecrets link post, where we curate the top stories related to digital publishing. From ‘playable stamps’ to minidiscs – the joys of dead media (Spectator) Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive…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 →