TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » PDF http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 21 May 2013 18:09:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 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 The White House Releases a Free Holiday E-Book http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-white-house-releases-a-free-holiday-e-book/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-white-house-releases-a-free-holiday-e-book/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:26:30 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=75174 We’re not entirely sure if the White House is now releasing a free holiday e-book on an annual basis. But we do know that taking a December tour of a seasonally-bedecked White House—presumably decorated by the First Lady—is something of a longstanding D.C. tradition. According to the official White House website, Michelle Obama’s 2012 holiday [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-white-house-releases-a-free-holiday-e-book/feed/ 0 1DollarScan adds platform customization to its budget scanning program http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/1dollarscan-adds-platform-customization-to-its-budget-scanning-program/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/1dollarscan-adds-platform-customization-to-its-budget-scanning-program/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:50:11 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/1dollarscan-adds-platform-customization-to-its-budget-scanning-program/ TechCrunch reports that 1DollarScan, a US subsidiary of Japanese jisui (third-party book-to-e-book scanning) company Bookscan, has introduced an improved formatting service called Fine Tune. Fine Tune promises to custom-format its scans so that they work better and load faster on all different platforms. For example, Fine Tuning for the iPhone, Android devices, or e-readers offers [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/1dollarscan-adds-platform-customization-to-its-budget-scanning-program/feed/ 3 PDF is most popular format, PC is most popular reader for O’Reilly e-book customers http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pdf-is-most-popular-format-pc-is-most-popular-reader-for-oreilly-e-book-customers/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pdf-is-most-popular-format-pc-is-most-popular-reader-for-oreilly-e-book-customers/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pdf-is-most-popular-format-pc-is-most-popular-reader-for-oreilly-e-book-customers/ O’Reilly TOC general manager and occasional TeleRead contributor Joe Wilkert has a piece up on O’Reilly Radar looking at a survey O’Reilly recently conducted of its e-book customers, asking on what devices and in which formats they planned to do most of their e-book reading. Wilkert reports that the most popular non-PC e-reading device, with [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/easy-to-use-applications-for-creating-your-own-ebooks-in-a-classroom-setting/feed/ 0 Kindle app update brings PDF, periodicals to iOS devices http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kindle-app-update-brings-pdf-periodicals-to-ios-devices/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kindle-app-update-brings-pdf-periodicals-to-ios-devices/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kindle-app-update-brings-pdf-periodicals-to-ios-devices/ This past week, the Kindle iOS app received an update. We did mention it when it happened, but I think a couple of the features in that update are important enough to go into in detail. First of all, the software can now read PDF files. I tried it out with a TV manual downloaded [...]

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