Threepress Consulting blog » threepress http://blog.threepress.org Threepress creates software for publishers, educators and authors. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:02:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Where in India are the digitization vendors? http://blog.threepress.org/2008/10/10/where-in-india-are-the-digitization-vendors/ http://blog.threepress.org/2008/10/10/where-in-india-are-the-digitization-vendors/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:21:33 +0000 Liza Daly http://blog.threepress.org/?p=95 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 epubcheck. (Bookworm statistics are not included in this report.)

India sends three times as much the traffic to the validation page compared to second-place United States, but only one-third as much the traffic to the home page.

It’s even more interesting to look at the “bounce rate” for the home page by country. The “bounce rate” is the percentage of times that a given page is the last one that a user looks at before they leave the site, and it’s one of the most useful metrics in web analysis. The overall bounce rate for the threepress.org home page is 37%, meaning 37% of the people who visited that page didn’t have a reason to click on another link. For India, that figure is 5% — presumably because they are all clicking through to the validation service. (By contrast, 80% of South African visitors leave immediately, suggesting that some unrelated keyword searches or links are driving them there.)

So if you’re looking for vendors who can provide high-quality, valid ePubs, I’d suggest, in descending order of frequency, suppliers in these cities:

  1. Pune
  2. Delhi
  3. New Delhi
  4. Chennai
  5. Mahape
]]> http://blog.threepress.org/2008/10/10/where-in-india-are-the-digitization-vendors/feed/ 2 Bookworm feature updates: sorting and pagination http://blog.threepress.org/2008/07/30/bookworm-feature-updates-sorting-and-pagination/ http://blog.threepress.org/2008/07/30/bookworm-feature-updates-sorting-and-pagination/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:38:49 +0000 Liza Daly http://blog.threepress.org/?p=28 It is now possible to re-sort books in your library by title, first author or creation date, and to re-order those in ascending or descending order:

If the number of books in your library exceeds 20, you will be presented with next/previous pagination controls.

In an earlier post I listed several features that I planned to add shortly, and two are now completed:

  1. Optimized layouts for mobile readers (including the iPhone)
  2. Search within book content
  3. Methods for sorting and managing one’s library
  4. 100% compliance with the IDPF guidelines for ePub reading systems (in regards to XHTML 1.1 content)

Looks like search is up next!

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