My tutorial Build a digital book with EPUB, posted on IBM DeveloperWorks, has been out for some time (November 2008!) but it has recently been updated with some minor corrections. It also no longer requires registration thanks to a policy change at DeveloperWorks.
The video of my session at BookNet Canada Tech Forum is now posted over on their site (scroll down to 1pm):
In the video you can enjoy the dramatic moment when the lights inexplicably dim and I think I’m being thrown off stage.
(Slides for ‘Designing ebooks for ePub reading engines’)
No speaking engagements this time (whew!) but I’ll be at London Book Fair 2010 and would love to meet up with folks who want to talk ebooks.
Update April 19, 2010: Like many others, I was unable to fly to London and will not be attending LBF.
Readers are finding new things to read from an ever-expanding range of retailers, publishers, aggregators, and authors, so we’ve just released an update to Ibis Reader that allows you to customize the list of ebook catalogs you see whenever you want to Get Books.
Just click Add your own catalog at the bottom of the [...]
The launch of the iPad and iBooks and the tremendous stream of one-off demos reimagining publishing have made it extremely difficult to understand what technologies for enriched content are available to publishers today. In particular, I’ve seen a lot of confusion about what HTML5 might actually mean and what specific opportunities it might bring for [...]
I’m pleased to be joining the board of the International Digital Publishing Forum.
In my nomination statement I listed three outcomes for ePub that I’d like to see realized:
EPUB must thoughtfully embrace the dramatic evolution in web technology that is represented by HTML5. Though HTML5 offers some intriguing semantic tagging, the most pressing issue is [...]
Now that I’ve got the hardware iPad, I was able to do some comprehensive reviews of the iBooks application and its treatment of the ePub format.
As noted earlier by Dave Thomas, when an ePub file is added to iTunes, the file is modified in place to add a file called iTunesMetadata.plist. This is really obnoxious, [...]
Slides and notes from my talk at BookNet Canada Tech Forum 2010 are posted.
Instead of becoming alarmed at the proliferation of ereaders and ebook softwares, designers and publishers should be thinking about the two dominant ePub reading engines: Adobe Mobile Reading SDK and WebKit.
This talk will help ebook producers understand what a reading engine is [...]
One nice feature of the Bookworm source code is that it includes a suite of test ebooks. Books which should not be processable, because they’re severely malformed, are prefaced with invalid- in the title. Other books demonstrate different characteristics. (Not all of the other books are actually valid, but their inconsistencies are minor [...]