Easier Epub experimenting and updating in iBooks

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By Paul Biba

That’s the title of an article by Keith Fahlgren of Threepress Consulting. He says:

The arrival of iBooks this year helped many people understand that ebooks were already capable of interesting experimentation, multimedia, and nuanced, thoughtful design. Many of iBooks’ strengths come directly from the fact that they wisely chose to base it on WebKit, the rendering engine core used in desktop browsers like Safari & Chrome and mobile browsers for the iPhone, iPad, Android, and now Blackberry browsers. This makes it an attractive test platform for folks developing new and innovative content in EPUB, but many have been frustrated with the time and effort it takes to update EPUB content in iBooks on an iPad using the iTunes sync. This post outlines an easier approach for iteratively developing and testing changes to EPUB XHTML and CSS files in iBooks (1.1.2) without using iTunes.

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