This week Bookworm was featured as part of a great discussion on ePub in the MacBreak Weekly Podcast (it’s the last topic in the podcast).
Naturally, Bookworm was down.
(It was a brief outage that — ha ha — was necessary to improve the reliability of the site.)
Many thanks to Andy Ihnatko for the plug. [...]
Safari is now supported (this John Resig post was invaluable). The screenshot below proves it!
There’s also a guide to how far you are in the current section. It’s based on a percentage rather than an absolute number of pages (similar to the Kindle’s pagination indicator).
Initial code release post.
Update Feb 18: Key [...]
If you’re producing ePub files, take the time to ask yourself two simple questions:
Are all the files I listed in the OPF file actually in the ePub archive?
Are all the files in the archive in the OPF file?
The OPF file is meant to be the canonical listing of all resources in your ePub. If it’s [...]
This graph compares books-added-per-day from the period after Stanza integration (in blue), to the same duration immediately preceding it (in green). It’s especially impressive given the holiday dips around Christmas and New Year’s. I expect next week’s traffic to be even higher.
On average, the rate of books added has tripled, and Bookworm now hosts [...]
Bookworm Mobile now takes advantage of the Stanza linking protocol. When viewing Bookworm on your iPhone, “Read in Stanza” links now appear on the library list and at the bottom of each book page. Clicking the arrow will launch the book in Stanza and add it to your Stanza catalog.
I’m excited about this because it [...]
I was very pleased to be able to write an article for the Fall 2008 issue of NISO ISQ (volume 20, no. 4).
The full text of the article is only available to NISO members, but here’s a quick excerpt:
Bookworm was originally conceived as an proof-of-concept in leveraging web browser rendering for ePub display. Since the [...]
O’Reilly Media will be posting a complete recording of the presentation, but in the meantime I’ve posted the slides from the webcast, “What publishers need to know about digitization” on Slideshare.
Thanks to everyone who attended and especially to those who asked so many excellent questions.
What publishers need to know about digitization
View SlideShare presentation or Upload [...]
More extrapolation from usage statistics on the threepress.org ePub validation service, which uses Adobe’s epubcheck:
This report, current as of today, tracks visits to the validator. Blue represents visits in the current month; green is the comparison with the previous month.
When I segment by country I get some interesting new results:
India: +115%
US: +66%
Russia: +2,500%
UK: +52%
Canada: [...]
ePubs added to Bookworm are now fully searchable.
When you add a book to your library, its text is automatically scanned and indexed in the correct language. You can search across all of your books from anywhere in the site.
Results are returned in relevance order. Bookworm supports many advanced search features, such as stemming [...]
Here’s a good guess:
This is the output from my Google Analytics web traffic report on the country which sends the most visits to threepress.org. 44% of the traffic to the entire site, which includes this blog, some public domain ebooks and my contact information, is to the ePub validation service, a wrapper around Adobe’s [...]