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 digital on its own open format, EPUB. It's hard to remember or imagine but at that time Sony was the hot… Continue reading Five years of eReport

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 publishers to start work on enhanced ebooks. Now Amazon has responded with its own next generation ebook format, Kindle Format 8 (KF8), complicating… Continue reading EPUB3 ready to go, now Amazon responds with Kindle Format 8