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 [...]
I’ll be talking about Bookworm on Monday, May 11 at the IDPF Digital Book conference.
I’m also looking forward to meeting people at Book Expo America later this month (and most especially the BEA Tweetup).
Lastly, I’m very excited about BookCamp Toronto. I’ve been to a number of technical unconferences and they are universally great. [...]
To coincide with the first launch of ePub books by a major publisher, I’m happy to announce the open beta of Bookworm, a web-based reader for the ePub ebook format.
Unlike most other ePub readers, Bookworm allows for full use of stylesheets and images, which is especially critical for technical books which include HTML tables and [...]
The IDPF says either .epub or EPUB, which have got to be the worst of all choices. For some reason PDF and HTML are fine with me because they’re unpronounceable, but I don’t like EPUB.
Epub?
ePUB?
The most useful standalone tool in threepress right now is tei2epub, which the system uses to convert its internal source XML to the emerging e-book standard format epub.
TEI is the Text Encoding Initiative, and is one of the most popular markup formats for printed works (especially in academics). All of the content on threepress [...]