Thank you to Kat Meyer and David Rothman for giving me the opportunity to blather on about ePub and open source over at TeleRead today!
The interview is part of a series on developers and designers working in digital publishing, the first of which covered Neelan Choksi of Lexcycle, creators ofStanza.
This screenshot really says it all, but I just love this 1981 report on how news of the future will be transmitted. I suspect Richard Halloran didn’t live long enough to see the “tele-paper” become ubiquitous.
Despite the tough economic times facing publishing in general and newspapers in particular, I’m pretty glad it doesn’t take 2 [...]
I’ve started following what’s going on with the Azardi project. I haven’t fired up my Windows emulator to try out the software (it’s in a very early release) but I do like the thought they’re putting into it, and using WebKit is exactly the right approach. I say these things not just because Richard [...]
I was disappointed to receive only 10 responses to the recent Bookworm poll, but four of those included thoughtful “other” answers and the response I expected to win did not.
The question was:
Which feature would you be most interested in seeing added to Bookworm?
Edit title, author and other metadata in your ePubs and export that to [...]
If you’re producing ePub files, take the time to ask yourself two simple questions:
Are all the files I listed in the OPF file actually in the ePub archive?
Are all the files in the archive in the OPF file?
The OPF file is meant to be the canonical listing of all resources in your ePub. If it’s [...]
Bookworm now has an active community of users. I’d like to know what features people are most interested in seeing added to the service.
If you are so inclined, please take this very quick one-question survey on which single feature you’d like to see in Bookworm:
What’s next for Bookworm?
I’ll post the results in a week [...]
I’ve been gently persuaded to give a second presentation at O’Reilly Tools of Change this year: Survey of current e-readers. (The first is Building a better web-based book).
This will be a review of the current state of hardware e-readers, both e-ink and LCD, and I’ll be co-presenting with Keith Fahlgren.
What’s it like to read your [...]
This graph compares books-added-per-day from the period after Stanza integration (in blue), to the same duration immediately preceding it (in green). It’s especially impressive given the holiday dips around Christmas and New Year’s. I expect next week’s traffic to be even higher.
On average, the rate of books added has tripled, and Bookworm now hosts [...]