I had a great time at the Society for Scholarly Publishing conference last month. I covered a few of the talks on digital publishing on various blogs:
On TeleRead, I discussed some observations about the adoption of e-books by academic (rather than trade) publishers.
My favorite talk was the agile software development panel, which I discuss on [...]
The IDPF says either .epub or EPUB, which have got to be the worst of all choices. For some reason PDF and HTML are fine with me because they’re unpronounceable, but I don’t like EPUB.
Epub?
ePUB?
My first on the TeleRead blog is up: Small pieces, loosely joined. This reflects my thinking in working with epub these last few weeks and with open source publishing in general.
There are a number of projects I’ve got lined up and they’re all going to follow the famous imperative that good programmers should be lazy. [...]
I’ll be at the annual meeting for SSP, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, this Thursday and Friday in Boston, MA. I’d love to meet with people about ebooks, the epub standard, and digital publishing in general.
There are a number of talks I’m looking forward to, especially in the areas of deep web reference discovery, [...]
threepress.org is a repository for open source software designed for use by publishers.
What this means is:
All of the software is free, meaning there is no cost associated with it. It also means free in the sense of unencumbered: it can be modified or re-purposed for any use, including commercial use.
Most packages re-use other tools [...]