So you’ve made an EPUB from InDesign and it looks reasonably okay. Can you ship? Well, you can do anything you want but I would suggest that there is still some heavy lifting that must be done before you send…Continue Reading →
Have you poured a long, complex Word file with hyperlinked endnotes into InDesign only to find their interactivity disappeared? Or maybe you managed to salvage the link to the endnotes but now you are wondering why there is no backlink…Continue Reading →
Amazon has released a new version of Kindle Previewer, the tool many developers use to convert EPUBs to MOBIs. It’s available for Windows and Mac OS. Since it’s still in Beta, I won’t replace my existing Kindle Previewer version (2.941). Here’s…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 →
Keith Snyder (@noteon), author of recent epubsecrets post The Portuguese Case, hosted today’s #eprdctn hour. If you’re an ebook developer, check out this Storify summary of the session (assembled by @BookDesignGirl; thanks, Colleen Cunningham). There are lots of good ideas for…Continue Reading →
Today’s #eprdctn hour on Twitter was a great success. Lots of ideas, lots of participation. No surprise, though: all of the previous sessions have been rollicking. Today, Tzviya Siegman, Lead of Wiley Digital Book Standards & Capabilities, led a spirited discussion…Continue Reading →
When I first started making ebooks, I found the Twitter feed #eprdctn (either from Anne-Marie Concepción’s Lynda course on Indesign to EPUB or from Liz Castro’s EPUB Straight to the Point). I signed up for Twitter, got my own handle (@BNGObooks),…Continue Reading →
If you’re reading this blog, you already know that EPUB has its secrets and mysteries. Implementation of EPUB3 (and 2) and KF8 might be ornery and hard to wrangle, but there are lots of developers and designers who are eager…Continue Reading →
In Part 1, we looked at installing Dropbox on iOS for file testing. In Part 2, we’ll look at Dropbox on Android. Time to tackle getting Dropbox on your Android tablets. While on some devices, this is just as easy…Continue Reading →