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 →
At PePcon 2012, Anne-Marie Concepcion (@amarie) led a session on “Top Scripts and Resources for EPUB.” In #ePrdctn Hour on Twitter June 13 (it happens every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. EST) one of them, Kris Coppieters’s script for converting InDesign page item…Continue Reading →
I am a big fan of what the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is creating with their Readium EPUB reader. Each new version they release is better than the last, and Readium is close to supporting the entire EPUB 3.0…Continue Reading →
On January 31, 2012, the IDPF member groups approved the charter for a working group to add indexes support to ePUB. The EPUB 3 Indexes Charter has been released and is available on the IDPF Website and on code.google. You can also follow the…Continue Reading →
On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Jan Wright (@WIndexing) was a guest during #ePrdctn Hour on Twitter. Wright is the owner of Wright Information Indexing Services and has been indexing and taxonomizing since 1991. She is currently co-chairing the ASI’s Digital Trends Task Force,…Continue Reading →
When the ePUB 3.0 specificationwas approved in October 2011, it was somewhat surprising and certainly disappointing to many ePUB creators that there was nothing in the spec for the creation of fixed-layout ePUBs. Apple’s fixed-layout ePUB has been very popular…Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →