If EPUB3 is never fully, widely adopted, is there still wisdom in holding it as the current standard for ebook formats?
Jenny Bullough, Manager of Digital Assets for Harlequin and ebookcraft speaker, investigates.
The prickly question of formats
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a publisher in possession of a book must be in want of an appropriate digital publishing format.
Laura Brady, principal at Brady Type, a digital + print book production studio, thinks publishers should ditch their prejudices when looking for the right format.
So someone told you the content had to be accessible
A tale of two cultures
As more and more publishing houses bring in talented digital employees, there’s a likely clash of cultures on the horizon. How can publishers with their rich history work alongside technologists and their history of “disrupting” everything? Designer and developer Derrick Schultz takes a look at the future of the people behind the books.
Ebooks' rotten floor
Bundle up! Your ebooks are getting cold
Helping the web and books become better friends
The Digital Publishing Interest Group has been hard at work since June 2013, bringing together the web and digital publishing communities to better understand each other’s needs. Find out what they’ve been up to, and how they’re building a brighter future for both communities in today’s guest post from ebookcraft presenters Tzviya Siegman and Ivan Herman!
Give Node.js a chance
Toronto tops digital library users
The Problem with Prosaic Solutions
Our first guest post of 2015 is from Artie Moffa, who spent six years setting textbooks at a Big Six publisher before switching to the indie scene. In 2014, he started The Yellow Buick Review, an open-source journal of lorem ipsum poetry, to explore best practices for formatting poems in the age of ebooks, which also happens to be the topic he’ll be discussing at ebookcraft this March. Now here he is explaining the unique needs of poetry versus prose.
