TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » ePub http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Poetry Breaks the Bank, Doesn’t Bring the Book Backlash http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/poetry-breaks-the-bank-doesnt-bring-the-book-backlash/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/poetry-breaks-the-bank-doesnt-bring-the-book-backlash/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 16:25:27 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=85113 Much publicity has surrounded the record prices fetched for poetry manuscripts at an auction held by Bonhams in London as part of The Roy Davids Collection of Poetry, Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets. The sale made a total of £750,000 ($1,141,550). The draft of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember me when I am gone’ fetched £33,650 ($51,217), almost ten [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/its-a-33-off-sale-at-booksonboard/feed/ 3 Using Calibre for E-Book Management, Chapter 11: Even More Plugins! http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/calibre-wrap-up-plugin-palooza/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/calibre-wrap-up-plugin-palooza/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:58:32 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=80686 This post is part of TeleRead's "Using Calibre for E-Book Management" Guide: Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 | Ch. 6 | Ch. 7 | Ch. 8 | Ch. 9 | Ch. 10 | Ch. 11 TeleRead’s Juli Monroe did a great job explaining what a Calibre plugin is, and how [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/calibre-wrap-up-plugin-palooza/feed/ 2 Using Calibre for E-Book Management, Chapter 10: Plugins http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/using-calibre-for-e-book-management-chapter-10-plugins/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/using-calibre-for-e-book-management-chapter-10-plugins/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:01:10 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=80464 This post is part of TeleRead's "Using Calibre for E-Book Management" Guide: Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 | Ch. 6 | Ch. 7 | Ch. 8 | Ch. 9 | Ch. 10 So far everything we’ve written about a number of uses for a default Calibre installation. However, one of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-27/feed/ 1 Should self-published authors use an e-book conversion service? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/bowker-and-data-conversion-laboratory-team-to-help-self-publishers/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/bowker-and-data-conversion-laboratory-team-to-help-self-publishers/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:22:05 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=78853 I’ve written plenty on this site about e-book conversion (most recently here and here), and I almost skipped over the Bowker press release. I’m glad I decided to investigate further. Okay, quick details first. From the release: Once an author has decided to self-publish, the next step of creating an eBook alongside print is obvious [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/bowker-and-data-conversion-laboratory-team-to-help-self-publishers/feed/ 6 Flipick To Allow ePub3 from Adobe InDesign http://www.teleread.com/epub/flipick-to-allow-epub3-from-adobe-indesign/ http://www.teleread.com/epub/flipick-to-allow-epub3-from-adobe-indesign/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:30:40 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=78298 E-book formatting is a challenge, as I’ve written about in previous posts. Later this month, Flipick is launching a tool that might make it easier. From their press release: Flipick is a new online service that allows book publishers and design shops to produce their own ePub3 compatible eBooks directly from within Adobe InDesign. This [...]

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