If you need to create fixed-layout ePUBs for iBooks, there are a number of resources available for doing so. First, take a look at the iBookstore Asset Guide for Apple’s current specification. This week Anne-Marie Concepcion (@amarie) released her new…Continue Reading →
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing 2012 continues through Wednesday, February 15. O’Reilly will continue to offer a live streaming video feed and also have recorded videos available for viewing. O’Reilly has also made presenters’ slide decks and videos of their…Continue Reading →
In case you did not know, O’Reilly Media’s annual Tools of Change for Publishing 2012 started today with a series of workshops in New York City. If you have never been to Tools of Change or TOC, it is like…Continue Reading →
Liz Castro has a great post on her Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis blog titled “Multiple Indents.” The post is related to a discussion on Twitter at #ePrdctn with Natasha Fondren (@ebookartisans) on how to ensure that poetic indents will work accurately…Continue Reading →
Liz Castro, the author of ePUB: Straight to the Point, has just released an new miniguide available in ePUB or Mobi titled Using InDesign to adapt plain text to ePUB. Castro describes the miniguide as: There was a chapter that I…Continue Reading →
’Tis the season of digital book publishing conferences, and with them come some opportunities to learn about ePUB 3.0 and receive some training on creating them. Digital Book World 2012 Digital Book World 2012was last week in New York City,…Continue Reading →
Liz Castro has a great post on making poetry look good across multiple devices using media queries in ePUB, “Media Queries for Formatting Poetry on Kindle and ePUB.” Castro focuses most of the post on how to use media queries to…Continue Reading →
As reported by eBook Newser in their post “IDPF Now Hosting an Epub3 Validator,” an ePUB 3.0 Validator is now available to run online (it also will handle ePUB2). The previous validator had been hosted on the Threepress Consulting Website, but with…Continue Reading →
On December 7, 2011, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) issued their BISG Policy Statement POL-1101: Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products. Digital Book World has a nice summary of the report in their post “New ISBN Recommendations to Lay Groundwork…Continue Reading →
As you may have heard, Apple held an event in New York today on education. They announced the release of iBooks 2.0, an update to their iBooks app that supports the new format creators can make with iBooks Author, a…Continue Reading →