Fixed Layout in ePUB 3.0 Draft: Metadata Property Definitions
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...
View ArticleiBooks: The Latest EPUB 3.0 Reader
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...
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EPUB 3 Support Grid and ADE Update
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...
View ArticleMathML Support in EPUB Reading Systems
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...
View ArticleApple Special Event Notes, October 23, 2012
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...
View ArticleiBooks 3.0 and iBooks Author 2.0: First Reactions
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...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing and Marketing Guidelines
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...
View ArticleValidate EPUB and iBooks Author ebook files for Apple iBooks Store
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...
View ArticleInteractivity in ebooks
Justin Putney, developer of in5 and recent PePcon 2015 speaker, has written a short survey for folks interested in interactivity in ebooks. Click here to go to the survey. I saw some great examples of...
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New eBook publishing features in InDesign CC 2015
Adobe has jut rolled out the Creative Cloud 2015 updates. Before I go any further, I want to remind anyone who hasn’t upgraded yet to make sure you read this first:...
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