Thanks to Hatgirl on MobileRead for this great tip on integrating Ibis Reader with Baen free books:
If you use Ibis Reader, you will have seen the “Get Books” link. This allows you to view OPDS catalogs (lists of web-accessible ebooks). The Feedbooks catalogs are pre-installed, and some of you may have set up a Calibre/Dropbox [...]
Covers are in the spotlight for the two updates we’ve just released for Ibis Reader. The first adds small versions of the covers to your web library:
In hindsight, this was an update we should have implemented ages ago, as it makes the library so much more attractive and usable. You should see a cover image [...]
The OPDS Catalog specification has seen tremendous growth in the last year and it’s now fast approaching version 1.0. We’re delighted to request your final comments and critiques on the 1.0 draft through 17 August 2010.
OPDS Catalogs enable the aggregation, distribution, and discovery of books, journals, and other digital content by any user, from any [...]
Readers are finding new things to read from an ever-expanding range of retailers, publishers, aggregators, and authors, so we’ve just released an update to Ibis Reader that allows you to customize the list of ebook catalogs you see whenever you want to Get Books.
Just click Add your own catalog at the bottom of the [...]
BookServer’s open architecture could help enable a new digital ecosystem that helps people find, buy, acquire, and read books from any source, on any device, using many different ebook readers. Based on common, open standards the project has the goal of giving readers the ability to find the books they want, in the formats that [...]
Mark Bertilis was nice enough to invite me to this week’s PubCall, a semi-regular publishing podcast.
I talked about the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), which I pronounce “op-dees” although probably “Open Pub” will win out.
OPDS is building some real momentum. Now is the time to get involved if you are interested [...]