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Happy International Day Against DRM!

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:05:59 +0000

Honestly, I hadn’t even heard about this until I woke up this morning and checked my phone, but apparently today—that’s Friday, May 3, 2013—is something of a holiday in the digital publishing community. It’s the fifth annual International Day Against DRM. Huh. The organization behind the holiday—which in reality is more of an awareness-raising movement—is known [...]

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Weekend Roundup — Meet Blackfriars, a digital-first literary fiction imprint

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:45:48 +0000

HTML5 will be the future of publishing (Tools of Change) 60% of Audiobooks Sold Are Now Digital (Galleycat) The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books (The Guardian) Little, Brown UK launches digital-first imprint for literary fiction (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: 30 Kindle Fiction e-books for $1.99 or less

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Review: The eBook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette

Juli Monroe — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:30:20 +0000

So you may have read my review of How to Format your eBook for Kindle, NOOK, Smashwords, and Everything Else. You remember that one, where I sort of missed that the book was no longer for sale? The author was kind enough to send us a review copy of his revised book, The eBook Design [...]

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With HTML5, publishers don’t need native apps, says Financial Times

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:10:38 +0000

Assuming you’re interested in the confluence of HTML5 and the monetization of digital publishing, you’ll definitely want to check out this recent Mashable article, which covers a panel that took place at the Mashable Media Summit last Friday, November 30. Thinking Outside the App, as the panel was titled, appears to have essentially dealt with just one [...]

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Inkling expands beyond iOS with HTML5 web-based e-textbook reading app

Chris Meadows — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:07:51 +0000

We previously reported that Inkling was launching a free e-book publishing platform in competition to Apple’s more restricted iBook Author, and that it was partnering with Follett in an e-textbook program. Up to this point, the utility of Inkling has been a bit limited in that access to its textbooks was restricted to its iOS [...]

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TouchPad offers lessons for tablet makers, sells out of Barnes & Noble

Chris Meadows — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:36:56 +0000

The aftershocks of HP’s $99 TouchPad fire sale continue to make themselves felt. On ReadWriteWeb, Dan Rowinski posts an op-ed looking at the lessons the tablet sale can teach. He touches on some of the same points I did yesterday, others are worth mentioning—such as when he points out that the lack of apps for [...]

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How media companies deal with Apple’s in-app purchase restrictions

Chris Meadows — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:15:00 +0000

Peter Kafka at All Things D takes a look at the strategies that various media companies are using to deal with Apple’s newly-enforced insistence on a cut of the take from any in-app purchases. Some are acquiescing, or passing the added cost onto consumers. Some are staying in the store and removing the in-app purchase [...]

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Kobo to develop HTML5 e-reader app

Chris Meadows — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:15:00 +0000

In reaction to Apple’s recent implementation of in-app store restrictions, Read Write Web reports, a number of e-reader developers have resorted to building HTML5 applications. These applications are essentially self-contained chunks of HTML code that can download themselves directly into your HTML5-capable device for offline use—and since they aren’t delivered through Apple’s app store, they [...]

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Google’s new authorship markup connects content to authors, even across websites

Chris Walters — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:21:21 +0000

Online content theft will always be a hot topic among authors and publishers, and the boundaries between book and web continue to evolve, so I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more ebook blogs discussing Google’s new authorship markup concept. About a month ago, the search engine announced that it would start tracking a new markup [...]

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Internet Archive digital video library to support HTML5

Gary Price, Editor of InfoDocket.com — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:07:35 +0000

From a News Release: The Internet Archive, the leading non-profit repository of digital media assets, announced today that it has adopted Kaltura’s Video solution to enable its entire digital video library to seamlessly support both HTML5 and Flash in order to provide viewers an optimal online video experience across all browsers and on any portable [...]

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AZARDI 2011 epub3/html 5 reader is nearing release

Paul Biba — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:34:45 +0000

This looks interesting, but a bit technical for me. From the Digital Publishing blog: As a short diversion from the magnificence of XHTML for publisher content series, we are just a very short time away from releasing AZARDI 2011, our new version of the digital content reader first launched in 2009. AZARDI 2011 is ePub, [...]

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MPS announces ePub 3.0 and HTML5 services

Paul Biba — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:18:36 +0000

From the press release: MPS Limited, a Macmillan company, today formally launched its new ePub 3.0 and HTML5 content creation and conversion services. MPS has been working with several major players in the publishing industry to prepare their content for ePub 3.0 and HTML5 so they can take advantage of the many new opportunities in [...]

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Web apps launched from iOS home screen run slower than in Safari

Chris Meadows — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:24:11 +0000

This might just be why I found the HTML5 version of Ibis Reader to run so ungodly slow on my first-generation iPod Touch. The Register has determined that iOS runs web applications significantly slower when they’re launched from the home screen than when they’re accessed from the Safari browser. It’s not clear whether this is [...]

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Web/iPhone/iPad e-book app review: Ibis Reader

Chris Meadows — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:44:02 +0000

Paul linked to a positive Project Gutenberg review of Ibis Reader a few months ago, but it first came to my direct attention when I tried out Jolicloud and discovered what it was: a web-based EPUB reader. It was an interesting idea, I thought, but I wasn’t sure what it was really good for. But [...]

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Video of the Booki.sh reader which uses HTML5

Paul Biba — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:25:55 +0000

The Booki.sh reader from Inventive Labs on Vimeo. More info here.

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