New Nook Glowlight released (it’s waterproof) Barnes and Noble has released an updated Nook Glowlight. Nate Hoffelder barely got to use his new device before BN rolled out a software update. Read about the update and early impressions here. The…Continue Reading →
#eprdctn Hour: Adding read aloud content Ken Jones of CircularFlo led an interesting discussion about inserting read aloud features to Fixed Layout books. It’s a lot of hand work, but his product offers a solution. Adobe Max: Anne-Marie Concepción’s session on…Continue Reading →
Amazon has just released a new edition of their Kindle publishing guidelines, version 2015.3. Page 2 of the Guidelines contains a revision history. Briefly, there’s news about using KindleGen to create your mobi file; some updates to image guidelines, an…Continue Reading →
#eprdctn hour: An open roundtable https://storify.com/LauraB7/eprdctn-roundtable There was no set topic this week, so almost anything and everything about ebooks was discussed. Harry Potter: Another edition Pottermore has released new, iBooks-Author created versions of the series (available only on iBooks,…Continue Reading →
#eprdctn hour: XML Workflow Fact-filled hour with discussions of the hows and whys of the XML workflow, including how to get authors and editors on-board, how to edit XML-based InDesign files, MSWord considerations, and more. https://storify.com/KevinBNGO/xml-workflow EPUBCHECK 4 EpubCheck 4…Continue Reading →
Remember the Trojan Horse? The Greek army hides in a huge horse, and the horse is presented to the citizens of Troy as a gift. They bring the horse inside the city gates, the soldiers spill out, and the rest is…Continue Reading →
#eprdctn hour India Amos (@Indiamos), Senior Content Producer, ePubs, at Amplify Education, led this week’s discussion on documenting workflow. Read the Storify edition here: https://storify.com/LauraB7/eprdctn-documentation-habits EPUB hyphenation Following a spirited discussion on Twitter over how to hyphenate long names and…Continue Reading →
Here are valuable and interesting links. The first two, from Tina Henderson, is all about Working with a Typesetter. Tina is a gifted book designer and compositor, with a great deal of good advice and insight. Enjoy: http://tinahenderson.com/2015/09/14/working-with-a-book-typesetter-part-1/ http://tinahenderson.com/2015/09/15/working-with-a-book-typesetter-part-2/ And this,…Continue Reading →
Well, there really wasn’t a dumb question among them. Lots of discussion about getting clean export from InDesign; image zoom on devices; page-list construction within InDesign; dealing with an InDesign book for EPUB export; spec’ing color in CSS. Here’s the…Continue Reading →
InDesign might be the application of choice for a large segment of print production and ebook development, but QuarkXpress is used worldwide to do the same tasks. Sérgio Teixeira, a designer and ebook developer working in Porto, Portugal, shows us some features of the…Continue Reading →