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 [...]
We were very happy to develop the EPUB version of HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith, the first title from A Book Apart. A Book Apart is the publishing offshoot of A List Apart, an organization hosting a fantastic digital design blog (including Web Standards for E-books by Joe Clark).
We love working with [...]
We’re making the geo demo featured in the Interactivity in EPUB talk available for download under the MIT License.
About the demo
In the demo, the geolocation capability of the web browser transmits your latitude/longitude. The code then queries the Geonames database to get an English placename.
After that, the code will continually poll for [...]
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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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’)
The launch of the iPad and iBooks and the tremendous stream of one-off demos reimagining publishing have made it extremely difficult to understand what technologies for enriched content are available to publishers today. In particular, I’ve seen a lot of confusion about what HTML5 might actually mean and what specific opportunities it might bring for [...]
During much of the first quarter we needed to turn folks away who were looking for help with ebook conversions and other projects, due to the demands of launching Ibis Reader.
We’re on track now to resume consulting and custom publishing software development alongside Ibis Reader, so please feel free to contact info@threepress.org for:
Ebook [...]
About 15 minutes of minor changes and Ibis Reader is the first ereader on the iPad. App developers have to wait for approval, and even Apple has to to wait for the release of the actual hardware. If you have access to the iPad simulator, you can use it right now.
If you access the [...]
In the two weeks since we launched Ibis Reader, we’ve been listening to feedback about what features you wanted to see most. I’m happy to say that we’ve just released two of those major enhancements: position syncing and a better interface for reading on the web.
First, here’s how to get the update, since this [...]
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 [...]