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Magazines get behind next generation ePub standard
Since the announcement of the iPad, magazine publishers have been scrambling to turn their magazines digital. But there’s one problem: unlike books, which have seen a surge in digital sales, the...
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Blio e-reading platform launches today, sort of
The Blio e-reading platform launched today, promising to deliver the Holy Grail of a rich visual experience and good readability on mobile devices. Unfortunately, today’s launch was of the Windows...
View ArticleMake your own Kindle ebooks using new Adobe InDesign plug-in from Amazon
Publishers who want to produce their own Kindle-ready ebooks can now do it directly from within the Adobe InDesign page layout software using a free plug-in thatAmazon has just released. The plug-in...
View ArticleReview: Bluefire eReader app spells great news for indies
A big hole in the eReading landscape has just been filled with the launch of independent ebook reading app Bluefire. The free iPad and iPhone app will read ePub formatted ebooks, including ebooks...
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EPUB3 ready to go, now Amazon responds with Kindle Format 8
A couple of weeks ago, the publishing industry’s EPUB3 specification was finally signed off. This was the cue for device makers and e-reading app developers to build it into their next releases and for...
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Analysis: Apple’s iBooks 2.0 is big, smart, and will be the ‘Kindle moment’...
Apple made several announcements yesterday which can drive the textbook’s digital transformation — or, in Steve Jobs’ more colourful phrase, its “digital destruction”. My pick is that this will be the...
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Analysis: Ebook Format Wars, Round 2
[This article was originally published in the March 2012 issue of News on Bookselling, the magazine of the Australian Booksellers Association.] This year will mark the fifth anniversary of Amazon’s...
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Online ebook production tools, Part 3: Inkling Habitat
This is the final article in a series looking at a new category of online ebook production tools. The earlier reviews looked at PressBooks and Vook. Unlike Vook and PressBooks, the Inkling Habitat...
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Update: PressBooks adds new features, pricing and distribution plans
A few weeks ago, I reviewed PressBooks, one of a new breed of online ebook production tools. PressBooks founder Hugh McGuire just announced a handful of updates and some planned changes to the...
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Five years of eReport
This blog started five years ago today, a couple of weeks before Amazon launched the game-changing Kindle and a couple of months after the industry had placed its hopes for a smooth transition to...
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