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Quakebook: a community-sourced book benefiting Japan

We were very pleased to be able to work on the ebook version of this innovative project.

Quakebook is:
A Twitter-sourced charity book about how the Japanese Earthquake at 2:46 on March 11, 2011 affected us all. All revenues from the QuakeBook Book go to the Japan Red Cross.
Threepress took the print-ready InDesign file and converted it [...]

Better single-source Mobi/EPUB files

Edited 3:15pm: Though the current epubcheck considers the sample below to be valid, the approach described in this post is likely not strictly valid according to EPUB 2.0.1. The XHTML TOC is not necessarily meant to be part of the EPUB publication as it is for Kindle consumption only, but it is included in the [...]

Video posted for ‘Survey of Current E-Readers’

O’Reilly has posted video from my session with Keith Fahlgren on e-reading devices.
Please enjoy my despair at the beginning as all the wireless-enabled readers interfere with the microphone.
It might be useful to follow along with the slides in the latter half of my talk, when the camera doesn’t show them.

On the contentious subject of ebook pricing

I had meant to include this as a slide in my e-reader talk but didn’t have time.
I think we can all agree that this is a don’t.

(There’s a free sample though!)