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Self-Publishing and Marketing Guidelines

Posted by Matthew | On: Jan 15 2013 | Comments (1)
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,...

DBW’s InDesign to Ebook Resources

Posted by Matthew | On: Jan 15 2013 | Comments (0)
Today is the start of Digital Book World 2013. This is the first of the annual digital publishing conference each year. The first day of the conference is devoted to pre-conference workshops, and one workshop that should be of special interest to anyone working...

MathML Support in EPUB Reading Systems

Posted by Matthew | On: Sep 04 2012 | Comments (0)
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 digital formats, this...

Reviewing EPUB Myths

Posted by Matthew | On: Aug 31 2012 | Comments (17)
  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...

EPUB Conferences for 2013

Posted by Matthew | On: Aug 31 2012 | Comments (1)
Hopefully you are still in your budgeting process for 2013 or have already earmarked money for 2013 travel and conferences because two big opportunities to learn about EPUB creation and production have opened their online registration.   Digital Book World...

Updated BISG EPUB 3.0 Support Grid

Posted by Matthew | On: Jul 31 2012 | Comments (1)
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has released an update to its EPUB 3.o Support Grid, an Excel spreadsheet with comparisons of the major EPUB reader devices and apps. According to the July 17, 2012 BISG Bulletin, “Updates include new information from Infogrid...

Downloading the Readium Chrome Extension

Posted by Matthew | On: Jun 12 2012 | Comments (1)
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 specification. I used Readium in a...

iBooks: The Latest EPUB 3.0 Reader

Posted by Matthew | On: May 25 2012 | Comments (3)
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 in my “The Future of eBook...

Formatting Poetry in ePUB: Part 2

Posted by Matthew | On: Apr 24 2012 | Comments (9)
Formatting Poetry in ePUB: Part 1 focused on basics of getting poetry indents right on multiple devices. In this post I wanted to give you a round up of other posts that have addressed poetry formatting issues in ePUBs. Most of these have been collected by Robert...

Jan Wright on Creating ePUB Indexes in InDesign

Posted by Matthew | On: Mar 11 2012 | Comments (6)
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...
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