Over the past couple days I’ve been playing with Laker, a new ebook framework. This is a collection of of bits and peices of HTML5 that gives you a number of shortcuts in designing your own ebook app. It’s based on a number of other projects, including Baker ebook Framework the Less CSS Framework, and [...]
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Stop Making It Bigger
March 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · opinion
by Eoin Purcell Most small and medium-sized publishers who haven’t YET decided to act on digital publishing wonder where to start. They are especially cautious if they have been in business for some time and have a backlist they are worried about converting. That’s a significant up-front cost for small publishers if they only have PDF [...]
Making B&N Number One
January 24th, 2011 · 7 Comments · opinion
As we know, the two ebooktailer giant in the United States are Barnes & Noble and Amazon. And, as we know, Amazon is currently the number 1 ebooktailer. But there is no reason why B&N, with a bit of shrewdness, can’t move closer to or takeover the number 1 position. I’m prepared to make one suggestion [...]
Publishers don’t know how much they’re making on ebooks, and other neat facts
December 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · surveys & polls
Aptara released the results of a survey today. They surveyed a group of 600+ publishers on the various things they’re doing with ebooks. If you want, you can find the complete report here. There are a bunch of interesting details in this report, like more of the respondents prefer the iPad over the Kindle (with [...]
Why has no one started making custom Kindle homepages?
October 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · software news
Everyone’s talking to day about Kinstant, a website that has been customized to act as a homepage for your Kindle browser. It’s at www.kinstant.com, and like you’d expect it has quite a few news, email, shopping, etc sites that you can visit from your Kindle. I don’t like it, actually. It has a lot of [...]
On making Kindle ebooks with inDesign
September 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · software reviews
Earleir today I posted the announcement for a new plug-in for Adobe inDesign (it lets you make Kindle ebooks). I don’t have inDesign, so I can’t test it myself. But I know a number of people on Twitter who do have it, and they tweeted first hand reports.
Borders are making a push into textbook market
July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
They just put out a press release today: Borders(R) today announced the launch of its new “Borders Textbook Marketplace” at borders.com/textbooks. The Marketplace features more than 1.4 million titles including a large selection of used textbooks at savings of up to 90 percent. In addition to saving on their purchases, students can also earn extra [...]
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