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 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 →
Kindle Create: beautiful Kindle books with Enhanced Typesetting, automatic table of contents and templates. https://t.co/8hlAQoDtiU #eprdctn — Palanidaran C (@palanidaran) April 5, 2017 Via an innocuous tweet yesterday, #eprdctn was introduced to a new MOBI/KF8 creation tool called Kindle Create….Continue Reading →
Amazon has done us all a favor and added hyphenation and a new font (Bookerly), and has refined its support for drop caps. Professional typesetting standards are now supported! We can provide high-quality ebooks to our readers, knowing that a drop cap will align nicely…Continue Reading →
I’ve seen quite a few people on twitter asking approximately the same question: Has anyone encountered problems with video not working when testing .mobi files in the Kindle apps? #eprdctn — Charlie Stephenson (@crjs20) May 12, 2014 The best answer…Continue Reading →
Jason Boog at GalleyCat has collected links to the publishing and marketing guidelines for most of the major self-publishing outlets in his post “Free eBook Formatting & Marketing Guides for Writers.” The post includes links to Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, Barnes &…Continue Reading →
A new version of the Kindle/Mobi Decoder, including Python script and AppleScript versions if available here. The links in the very first post will take you to the most recent version of both scripts. Do you use MobiUnpack? What…Continue Reading →
Not to be outdone by Apple’s release of updates to iBooks and iBooks Author, the Amazon Kindle Publishing Team announced today the release of KindleGen 2.7 and Kindle Preview 2.7. Here is what we get in the update: The updated…Continue Reading →
On August 22, Aptara (@aptara) hosted a Webinar titled “eBook & App Device Compatibility: Separating Fact from Fiction” with Joshua Tallent (@jtallent), CEO and Founder of eBook Architects, and Jean Kaplansky (@JeanKaplansky), a Solutions Architect at Aptara. It was an…Continue Reading →