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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 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, [...]

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’)

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 [...]

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.

This screenshot really says it all, but I just love this 1981 report on how news of the future will be transmitted.  I suspect Richard Halloran didn’t live long enough to see the “tele-paper” become ubiquitous.

Despite the tough economic times facing publishing in general and newspapers in particular, I’m pretty glad it doesn’t take 2 [...]

I just love this witty, gorgeous short film by the geniuses at Apt Studio, celebrating the 25th anniversary of UK publisher 4th Estate.
There are numerous in-jokes referencing the material in the books. You’ll get them if you’re smarter than me.

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
Be sure to check out the making-of [...]