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An Independent Publisher Speaks Out About eBooks
Steve Emecz runs independent London publishers MX Publishing specialising in NLP and therapy books. He talks us through his experience with e-books:One of the wonderful things about the evolution of...
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LBF11, ePub 3 and the next big thing?
So the London Book Fair is over for another year and I have to report that it was a far better fair than last year, though that comparison is like telling a man who has just lost his leg that you have...
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World eReading Congress – So Cordially Invited...
Well in the end I was very cordially invited to join the World eReading Congress by the event organisers and help host the opening sessions on Tuesday 10th May with BBC’s Technology Correspondent,...
View ArticleAccess All Areas: Why Accessibility will be Critical to the Future of Publishing
Through a string of journeys between 1819 and 1857, James Holman circumnavigated the globe during which time he helped to chart the Australian outback, fought slavery in Africa and survived the frozen...
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Provide eBook & audiobook content in preferred formats
Thanks to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the EPUB format for eBooks has become the widely accepted standard. On the audiobook side, Apple products have popularized the MP3 format....
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New tricks
Recently I was asked by a curious intern for a bit of a look at the inner workings of an ebook. I found myself giving a short lecture on HTML and XML.She was young, bright, and had an MA in Publishing....
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Accessible Italian eBooks in the launching pad
The LIA project – Libri Italiani Accessibili (Accessible Italian books) by AIE (Italian Publishers’s Association) aims at creating a service to increase the availability ebooks for blind and visually...
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The Ebook Design Features Grid
IntroductionAt Tools of Change – Frankfurt last week, I and Dan Rhatigan did a talk on design and typography in e-reading.read more
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Print and eBooks cannot co-exist after all
Swimming (or sinking) in a new world owned by device-manufacturers (who are, not coincidentally, store owners), publishers oft comfort themselves with the idea that the old will co-exist with the new...
View ArticleFrom format war to sustainability fight
History is repeating itself. The developments we currently see with e-books, are in fact not new. In the early eighties there was a battle between the image carriers Betamax, VHS and Video 2000. VHS...
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