Your ebook is finished! You did your homework, fixed all the nasty errors that epubcheck threw at you, and your ebook is done. The only remaining step is to send it to Apple’s review team and cross your fingers. A…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 →
While there was only about three minutes of the October 23, 2012 Apple event dedicated to iBooks and the updates to iBooks and iBooks Author (you can watch those three minutes on CNET here ), it was enough to create a stir in the #ePrdctn/eBook…Continue Reading →
Here is an overview of the Apple event, especially as it applies to eBooks and the EPUB format. iPhone 5 Tim Cook said that iPhone 5 is off to a phenomenal start, selling more than 5 million units over the…Continue Reading →
This weekend, Nate Hoffelder (@thDigitalReader) of The Digital Reader posted “iBooks 3.0 Coming Next Week – Adds More Support for Epub3” tracking clues that the Apple press event on October 23 will not only include an announcement of the iPad Mini but…Continue Reading →
If EPUBs are to serve as textbooks for mathematics and science, or if they are even to convey ideas from these fields, it is important that they can properly display complex mathematic equations and scientific formulas. On Websites and in…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 →
Whenever Apple releases a new version of their Mac OS, there is concern whether the tools one uses will be supported and continue to work effectively. While Apple’s release of Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion has received favorable reviews so…Continue Reading →
Lots of new releases and updates for EPUBs and EPUB creators. BISG EPUB 3.0 Support Grid The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has released their EPUB 3.0 Support Grid which shows how various eReaders and eBook software support the new…Continue Reading →
At PePcon 2012 last week, I kept hearing again and again that there were no EPUB 3.0 readers. While this was not true then (I used both Infogrid Pacific’s AZARDI reader and IDPF’s Readium to demo EPUB 3.0 files and capabilities…Continue Reading →