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This is a lovely style (I like the “Part” pages especially) with a great cover:

Thank you to Gordon Grace for providing it!

Three new styles for ePub Zen Garden from Mike Fallows, who has also blogged about his contributions, describing the various inspirations.
Seneca

Carter

Jost

ePubs are being created with increasingly sophisticated designs and ebook devices are becoming increasingly powerful. This creates a real tension: ePub creators want to be able to develop nuanced ebook designs using CSS, the makers of ePub reading systems face an expanding range of screen sizes (from postage stamp to poster size), and some readers [...]

We were curious about the distribution of languages for ePubs on Bookworm (Ibis Reader doesn’t yet have enough titles to be representative yet.)
The following information is derived from the dc:language field in the OPF file.
Here’s the chart:

During much of the first quarter we needed to turn folks away who were looking for help with ebook conversions and other projects, due to the demands of launching Ibis Reader.
We’re on track now to resume consulting and custom publishing software development alongside Ibis Reader, so please feel free to contact info@threepress.org for:

Ebook [...]

We’ve just posted an Ibis Reader Privacy Checklist, a set of informal answers to the questions and issues raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s February paper: Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers. The EFF has a long history of advocating digital and consumer rights and recently they’ve devoted more attention to digital [...]

About 15 minutes of minor changes and Ibis Reader is the first ereader on the iPad. App developers have to wait for approval, and even Apple has to to wait for the release of the actual hardware. If you have access to the iPad simulator, you can use it right now.
If you access the [...]

Publishers and authors have been asking us for an easy way to get readers started with their books in Ibis Reader. Because Ibis is a part of the Web rather than a standalone application, we can easily add an ePub book that’s available on the web with a simple URL:
http://ibisreader.com/library/add/?epub=URL-of-the-ePub

For example, to add this book [...]

In the two weeks since we launched Ibis Reader, we’ve been listening to feedback about what features you wanted to see most. I’m happy to say that we’ve just released two of those major enhancements: position syncing and a better interface for reading on the web.
First, here’s how to get the update, since this [...]

The ePub Zen Garden was featured in the recent article Web Standards for E-books by Joe Clark at A List Apart. I highly recommend it.
Thanks to that publicity bump we’ve got a new contribution: Gibson, by Adam Scott. Thank you!