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 [...]
I always go a little overboard when making slides for my presentations. I think it’s a form of procrastination. But I’m not a designer and have only limited Photoshop skills, so I have to rely on some tricks.
For my TOC Ignite presentation on Ibis Reader, I used many now-obligatory photos found by searching Creative-Commons-licensed content [...]
I had a great time speaking in front of the audience at Digital Book World 2010. Actually, that’s not true, it was pretty scary — big audience! But the talk seemed well-received, and the conference was very well-organized, especially given that this was its first year.
You can follow the slides and notes on the Digital [...]
Here’s a roundup of upcoming talks at various publishing conferences:
Digital Book World
January 27, 2010
When digital books account for 10% or more of revenue, indifferent third-party conversions aren’t enough. I’ll be presenting a plenary session on taking ebook quality control to the next level.
O’Reilly Tools of Change
February 22-24, 2010
Networked, Mobile & Landlocked: Current Ereaders
Keith Fahlgren and [...]
There was a sizable crowd and some good questions from the audience at our eformats talk at AAUP. I had to do half the presentation cowboy-style — no slides, no notes — when my USB drive turned out to be Mac-formatted and the slides had to be recovered from email. Thank you Kate!
The [...]
This Saturday I’ll be speaking on a panel at the Association of American University Presses annual meeting about electronic book formats:
Introduction to E-formats
Kindles, iPhones, Sony Readers, Google Books, e-pub, prc, DRM, no-DRM, images with OCR, page-based display vs. reflowed text . . . How do we put books in front of readers on the web? [...]