Jason Boog at GalleyCat has collected links to the publishing and marketing guidelines for most of the major self-publishing outlets in his post “Free eBook Formatting & Marketing Guides for Writers.”
The post includes links to Smashwords, Amazon Kindle,...
Today is the start of Digital Book World 2013. This is the first of the annual digital publishing conference each year. The first day of the conference is devoted to pre-conference workshops, and one workshop that should be of special interest to anyone working...
A new version of the Kindle/Mobi Decoder, including Python script and AppleScript versions if available here. The links in the very first post will take you to the most recent version of both scripts.
Do you use MobiUnpack? What are you using it for? Do...
Not to be outdone by Apple’s release of updates to iBooks and iBooks Author, the Amazon Kindle Publishing Team announced today the release of KindleGen 2.7 and Kindle Preview 2.7. Here is what we get in the update:
The updated KindleGen 2.7 software includes:
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On August 22, Aptara (@aptara) hosted a Webinar titled “eBook & App Device Compatibility: Separating Fact from Fiction” with Joshua Tallent (@jtallent), CEO and Founder of eBook Architects, and Jean Kaplansky (@JeanKaplansky), a Solutions Architect...
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has released an update to its EPUB 3.o Support Grid, an Excel spreadsheet with comparisons of the major EPUB reader devices and apps. According to the July 17, 2012 BISG Bulletin, “Updates include new information from Infogrid...
Lots of new releases and updates for EPUBs and EPUB creators.
BISG EPUB 3.0 Support Grid
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has released their EPUB 3.0 Support Grid which shows how various eReaders and eBook software support the new spec . It is a great...
Formatting Poetry in ePUB: Part 1 focused on basics of getting poetry indents right on multiple devices. In this post I wanted to give you a round up of other posts that have addressed poetry formatting issues in ePUBs. Most of these have been collected by Robert...
There have been a number of great posts with ePUB creation tips lately. Here are four that offer help for creating better ePUBs.
Centering Text
You would think centering text in an ePUB would be a simple matter, but the truth is that different readers handle centering...
Infogrid Pacific has announced the alpha release of AZARDI Online (AZARDI OL), their online ePUB3 reader. AZARDI OL specs describe three new features, including:
Support for SMIL Audio Overlays for the first time, so you can create the read-aloud function while...
