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 →
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 →
This is a guest post from Dave Cramer, co-chair of the W3C’s EPUB 3 Community Group, and member of the CSS Working Group, in addition to being Senior Digital Publishing Technology Specialist, Hachette Book Group . It all started 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 →