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New ePub Zen Garden style: Gibson by Adam Scott

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!

Three JavaScript ePub Readers

The last few weeks have seen a tremendous increase in interest about ePub. Many new blog posts have been written trying to explain the format. We’ve also seen a big jump in the number of publishers coming to Threepress for help with tricky ePub problems or just asking for guidance about the format. While I’d [...]

New ePub Zen Garden contribution: GBS

This is really funny if you get the joke, and still a nice style if you don’t. Thanks Kirk Biglione!

New ePub Zen Garden contribution: Modern 2

Another clean, minimalist style from Reece Dunn, with a nice use of small-caps:

Adding small caps to only the first line of a chapter:

#content > p.noindent:first-line
{
font-variant: small-caps;
}

where #content is the containing block that holds the ebook.

New ePub Zen Garden contribution: Modern 1

Thank you to Reece Dunn for this nice use of CSS typography and generous white space:

New ePub Zen Garden style: Traditional

Thanks to Martin Jenny for a lovely “traditional” style for ePub Zen Garden, using embedded fonts for the headings (use Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5).

First ePub Zen Garden user contribution: Terminal

I am obliged to disclaim that Keith Fahlgren made this awesome style within minutes of the site launch and I sat on it for weeks. I am lame.

There are a few easter eggs in it for other programmers to appreciate.

ePub Zen Garden

At BookCamp Toronto this weekend I released ePub Zen Garden, modeled after the pioneering CSS Zen Garden project.
EZG aims to inspire and promote digital book design. Like the CSS Zen Garden, it demonstrates that solely via Cascading Style Sheets (and in our case a cover image), a wide range of expression is possible. [...]