We were very pleased to be able to work on the ebook version of this innovative project.
Quakebook is:
A Twitter-sourced charity book about how the Japanese Earthquake at 2:46 on March 11, 2011 affected us all. All revenues from the QuakeBook Book go to the Japan Red Cross.
Threepress took the print-ready InDesign file and converted it [...]
A really elegant submission from Paolo Pellegri.
I love the Part title pages especially:
Thank you!
I’m happy to announce that Threepress has a new developer starting today. Sam Jacoby is a printer, publisher, and programmer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied computer science at Harvard and runs his own fine printing press: Shackman Press.
Sam will be working with us on a number of projects including Ibis Reader and client work. I’m [...]
I love this new design for the ePub Zen Garden from Anthony Caccese, based on his favorite edition of Contact by Carl Sagan:
The chapter headings look especially great:
Thank you Anthony!
We’re really happy to announce some major changes to make Ibis Reader even better for users, including full support for all body fonts on the iPad and iPhone (including the new fonts just added today to iOS4). We also made some improvements to UI reliability and now make better use of the iPad’s larger [...]
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’)
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 [...]
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!