Let’s talk for a moment about what an oxymoron is. It is a figure of speech in which one or two words that seemingly contradict one another appear side by side. Oxys means sharp, and moronos means dull or stupid…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 →
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 →
The slow adoption of EPUB 3 was a major thread to come out of the Publishing Summit at W3C’s TPAC, even though it was recommended in October 2011. I have been trying to puzzle out why it hasn’t been more…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Teresa Elsey from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The W3C put on its first Publishing Summit on November 9 and 10 in San Francisco, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary/Advisory Committee week (TPAC), when the…Continue Reading →
The word on the street is that the majority of ebooks submitted to various retailers are still native EPUB 2. Ben Dugas of Kobo reports that EPUB 2 makes up about 70% of incoming content. Wait, what? Let’s dissect this…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from alumni EPUB Secrets editor Kevin Callahan. He recently discovered a Look Inside-bug and wants to share it with you. And to talk about therapuetic powers of ice cream. Where am I? In everyday life,…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Ben Dugas at Kobo. Ben is the Manager, Content Display Quality and Production at Rakuten Kobo Inc. in Toronto. A few times a year I’ll find myself in a conversation with Laura Brady or some…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 →
This is a guest post from Chris Wait (@cdwait), who is Ebooks Manager at New Directions Publishing, where he digitizes all the books. I Had This Nightmare One Time That I Worked in E-production About a week ago, I got…Continue Reading →