Details over at O’Reilly Labs: New features and bug fixes for Bookworm.
Most of these are (by design) internal and not user-facing, but at least two are notable and possibly quite fun.
Feedbooks integration
At the bottom of the user library page (your home page when you log in), there’s now an option to download any books from [...]
There was a sizable crowd and some good questions from the audience at our eformats talk at AAUP. I had to do half the presentation cowboy-style — no slides, no notes — when my USB drive turned out to be Mac-formatted and the slides had to be recovered from email. Thank you Kate!
The [...]
Bookworm has its second home in Italy: Simplicissimus Bookworm. Here’s their announcement.
I helped out with the installation but the very competent folks at Simplicissimus will be managing it from here on. Best of luck!
This Saturday I’ll be speaking on a panel at the Association of American University Presses annual meeting about electronic book formats:
Introduction to E-formats
Kindles, iPhones, Sony Readers, Google Books, e-pub, prc, DRM, no-DRM, images with OCR, page-based display vs. reflowed text . . . How do we put books in front of readers on the web? [...]
At BookCamp Toronto this weekend I released ePub Zen Garden, modeled after the pioneering CSS Zen Garden project.
EZG aims to inspire and promote digital book design. Like the CSS Zen Garden, it demonstrates that solely via Cascading Style Sheets (and in our case a cover image), a wide range of expression is possible. [...]
Slides and notes from my 15-minute presentation at the IDPF Digital Book 2009 conference:
Open-source ePub with Bookworm
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You can also download the slides as a PDF. Licensed Creative-Commons-Attribution.
It was a pretty good event overall although I felt that the main program was much stronger than the workshops (my talk was part [...]
Ignacio Fernández Galván has contributed a set of new logos to highlight DRM-free ePubs. These are a modification of the public domain logos I’ve already released.
There’s a spirited discussion on MobileRead on the topic. (“Maybe it’s just me, but those are really ugly.”)
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.
Bookworm is now available in German!
Bookworm will switch to your preferred language automatically if it is available, or you can manually set your language by updating your user profile.
Thank you to Jens Quade for his initial work in internationalizing Bookworm and especially to Michael Wiedmann for heroically translating the remainder of the site.
Danish, Spanish and [...]
There’s been some healthy discussion, instigated by Mike Cane, about whether ePub can provide a visually-appealing reading experience. I recommend the related discussion on TeleRead, especially the comments.
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on, but my feeling is that it reduces down to two statements:
Reading systems need to fully support HTML/CSS. Realistically this means [...]