The same Italian translation available by default on the Simplicissimus Bookworm site is also now available on O’Reilly Bookworm. As with the other languages, it will switch to Italian if your browser indicates that Italian is your preferred language, or if you specify Italian in your user profile after logging in.
Thanks to Marco [...]
O’Reilly is announcing today that the in-progress book, Programming Scala, has been released using the Open Feedback Publishing System, a platform I built for them that allows public commenting on digital manuscripts.
Users can comment using the web site, read the entire in-progress text of the book (updated as the authors revise it), or [...]
Over on the O’Reilly Labs blog I’ve posted instructions on how to help translate Bookworm into other languages.
I’m excited about this initiative for two reasons:
The ePub format is gaining ground faster outside of the U.S. than within, because the ePub-unfriendly Kindle is effectively useless anywhere else.
Translations are a relatively easy [...]
On the O’Reilly Tools of Change blog recently:
Processing the deep backlist at the New York Times, a report from OSCON
Optimizing web content for the Kindle, using Bookworm screenshots
The latter is part of a series of Kindle articles that I’ll be putting out in the coming weeks, including those on getting inside the device’s operating system [...]
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 [...]