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Slides from my talk on creating accessible interactive ebooks with EPUB 3 are available:
Accessible interactive books with EPUB 3
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I’ll be speaking at this year’s IDPF Digital Book 2011 event on Monday, May 23, in a session called Creating Highly-Accessible Interactive Content. Though the session is part of the Technology and Production track, and I will touch on specifics of EPUB 3 markup and standards, I’ll be approaching the intersection of accessibility and technology [...]

Threepress will be fully represented at Tools of Change 2011. Keith Fahlgren will be part of the panel All About EPUB3. I’m not speaking this year but I’m attending; a relief for me as I’m really looking forward to spending the time listening rather than rehearsing.
The following is a list of talks that I’m [...]

I presented at Digital Book World 2011 about using EPUB3 to produce multimedia and interactive ebooks that will be compatible with multiple devices and software ereaders.
Anyone who’s ever been to a digital publishing conference knows that there is always a bewildering array of products that create and display enhanced content: ebooks that contain video, audio, [...]

This was my first year at TOC Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Book Fair, and I had a fantastic, sleep-challenged time. O’Reilly Media was kind enough to invite me to speak at TOC about the current work on EPUB3 as it relates to HTML5 and other technologies.
Slides from EPUB Evolutions are posted but it may be [...]

I re-recorded my talk at IDPF Digital Book as a video. Getting the audio synced properly was no fun so I apologize for a few production issues.
Interactivity in EPUB
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Here’s the executive summary of the talk:

You can add interactivity to an EPUB book using either the <object> or <script> elements.
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I’ll be presenting at this year’s IDPF Digital Book 2010 conference, which is attached to Book Expo America:

EPUB Enhanced, Interactive & Connected

eBook content authored in the IDPF EPUB standard is not limited to text and images. Publishers and developers are integrating into EPUB titles audio, video, animation, and a growing array of interactive [...]

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.

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 [...]