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… Read more >
Martin Taylor
October 10, 2012
ebook formats, ePub, Kindle, koboAmazon, digital transformation, digital transition, ebook reader, future of publishing, idpf, KF8, Kindle, kobo
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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… Read more >
Martin Taylor
August 13, 2012
ebook distribution, ebook formats, ebook production, reviews
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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,… Read more >
Martin Taylor
August 2, 2012
ebook formats, ebook production, Educational publishingdigital textbooks, e-textbooks, enhanced ebooks, etextbooks, inkling, inkling habitat, rich media, XML
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[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… Read more >
Martin Taylor
March 26, 2012
analysis, ebook formats, ePub, iPad, Kindle
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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… Read more >
Martin Taylor
January 21, 2012
Apple, copyright, ebook formats, Educational publishing, iOS, iPadApple, digital textbooks, educational publishing, iBooks 2.0, iBooks Author, iTunes U, iTunes U app, iTunes U Course manager
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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… Read more >
Martin Taylor
October 25, 2011
Amazon, ebook formats, ebook production, ePub, Kindleenhanced ebooks, epub, EPUB3, KF8, Kindle 8 Format, kindle format 8
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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… Read more >
Martin Taylor
October 11, 2010
Adobe, ebook formats, ebook readers, ebook stores, ePubAdobe ACS4, drm, ebook reader review
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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…. Read more >
Martin Taylor
October 4, 2010
Amazon, ebook formats, ebook production, Kindle
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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… Read more >
Martin Taylor
September 29, 2010
blio, ebook formats, ebook readers
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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, … Read more >
Martin Taylor
June 22, 2010
ebook formats, ebook readers, iPad, magazinesdigital magazines, epub, formats for digital magazines, idealliance, idpf, prism
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