I was quite pleased to be asked to write a technical report for JISC. The paper provides background on the state of ebook publishing today, and concludes with a set of recommended projects that aim to improve digital scholarly publishing in the UK. The report is available online as Digital Monograph Technical Landscape: Exemplars [...]
I was thrilled to be able to contribute a chapter to Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, a compilation of essays edited by Hugh McGuire and Brian O’Leary. (Incidently, it was great to see how much the text was improved by their editorial work.)
In the essay, I highlight some advantages and affordances unique to digital books. The [...]
Slides from my talk on creating accessible interactive ebooks with EPUB 3 are available:
Accessible interactive books with EPUB 3
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A really elegant submission from Paolo Pellegri.
I love the Part title pages especially:
Thank you!
In a happy accident I met Chris Brogan while returning from Tools of Change this year and we had a long-ranging conversation about digital publishing and storytelling. I was especially interested in his viewpoint as an author who is deeply connected to social media: like many digital-native publishers and writers, he’d like to push [...]
“Books of the coming century will all be printed leaves of nickel, so light to hold that the reader can enjoy a small library in a single volume. A book two inches thick will contain forty thousand pages, the equivalent of a hundred volumes; six inches in aggregate thickness, it would suffice for all the [...]
Like many people, my first reaction to the news that Apple blocked the release of the Sony iOS ereader was to assume that Sony had tried to circumvent the long-standing rule that content purchased inside an iOS app must be mediated by Apple’s purchasing system (and 30% cut).
It may now be the case that there [...]
iBooks now supports an extension to EPUB that allows publishers to create books with precise layout using CSS. This is Apple’s own extension, not part of the EPUB specification itself (and not one that they suggested be included in EPUB3).
The goal of this post is to simply document the extension and show how to create [...]
Thank you to Roxanne McHenry for the opportunity to talk about ebooks, EPUB3, book apps, and Ibis Reader in a recent interview with The Unruly Guides.
Following my post Developing an EPUB Linking specification a couple of months ago, a subset of the EPUB3 Working Group formed and has been actively researching and discussing the problem of EPUB to EPUB linking and EPUB identifiers in general. Based on feedback from others inside and outside that group, I’ve decided that many aspects [...]