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Slides from my talk on creating accessible interactive ebooks with EPUB 3 are available:
Accessible interactive books with EPUB 3
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I’ll be speaking at this year’s IDPF Digital Book 2011 event on Monday, May 23, in a session called Creating Highly-Accessible Interactive Content. Though the session is part of the Technology and Production track, and I will touch on specifics of EPUB 3 markup and standards, I’ll be approaching the intersection of accessibility and technology [...]

I presented at Digital Book World 2011 about using EPUB3 to produce multimedia and interactive ebooks that will be compatible with multiple devices and software ereaders.
Anyone who’s ever been to a digital publishing conference knows that there is always a bewildering array of products that create and display enhanced content: ebooks that contain video, audio, [...]

Thank you to Roxanne McHenry for the opportunity to talk about ebooks, EPUB3, book apps, and Ibis Reader in a recent interview with The Unruly Guides.

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 [...]

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’)

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 [...]