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• Skiff Reader (Preview)

  
  FindaneBookReader — Authority: 116
  Slim, sleek and oh so sexy, the Skiff Reader is set to wow the ebook reader scene with its ability to render magazine and newspaper layouts with a look similar to a printed newspaper or magazine. Using multiple columns, photos, common type fonts and pagination, the unique Skiff is designed to take reading to the next ...
  3 days ago

• Reader question: Syncing e-books to iPhone

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  In comments on a post relating to the announcement that iBooks on the iPad would be able to sync “free” EPUB books through iTunes, a reader expressed skepticism that users would be able to download them without iTunes. Hey iPhone/iPod Touch users: What can you download directly and use without using itunes ...
  4 days ago

• Exporting documents to EPUB with InDesign

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Terry White has an article in Adobe how-to magazine Layers looking at how to export documents from InDesign into EPUB format for use with Adobe Reader or other e-book devices. I don’t have nor have I used InDesign so I can’t really say how good the instructions are. However, the first half of the article ...
  5 days ago

• Apple releases iBooks information

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Apple has posted a webpage with details about the iBooks iPad app . There are a couple of points of particular interest to TeleReaders. First of all, iBooks will allow you to “add free ePub titles to iTunes and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad.” That’s right, the page specifically uses the word ...
  1 week ago

• Pocketbook 302 review: Preconceptions

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Sometime this coming week, I should be receiving a Pocketbook 302 e-book reader to review—and Joanna, nee Ficbot, will be reviewing the smaller Pocketbook 360 . We have mentioned Pocketbook a few times already ; it is a Ukrainian/Taiwanese company that uses e-ink-based hardware from Netronix (the OEM that ...
  1 week ago

• The First Hebrew ePub Online Store – Hebrew e-Books at Mendele He-Books

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Surprising as you might find it, despite the high percentage of readers and the great popularity of books among Hebrew speakers, there are no e-Books in Hebrew (He-Books). At least there were none until recently. It is rather incredible with Israelis known as gadget lovers and technology early adopters but that’s ...
  1 week ago

• The problem of e-book ISBNs

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Publishing Perspectives has an article looking at the current problematic nature of the ISBN system when it comes to e-books . The article is a good summary of the situation as it now stands, summing up the ongoing debate between whether to give each format of an e-book its own separate ISBN, or assign one ISBN to ...
  1 week ago

• Online Open Document Text to Epub conversion tool announced

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  ODT2ePub just sent me an email announcing the release of their new web based tool. According to the tool it includes custom and standard paragraph styles and character styles, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, pictures, page breaks, cross references, footnotes. They plan support for margins and tables of ...
  1 week ago

• Penguin exhibits interactive ‘e-books’ for the iPad

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Fellow NAPCO blog Appletell links to a story on iPadInsider (which in turn links to a story on Paid Content ) which offers a first look at what “e-books” might look like on the iPad, courtesy of Penguin. I quotate “e-books” because I don’t think I would necessarily call what Penguin had to display ...
  1 week ago

• Gizmodo explains the E-Babel problem

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Gizmodo has a great article by Matt Buchanan laying out the “Tower of E-Babel” problem: different readers have their own different, restricted file format ecosystems . There is not a lot new to long-time TeleRead readers, but it would be great to show anyone just getting into e-books, or thinking about it. The ...
  1 week ago

• Giz Explains: How You’re Gonna Get Screwed By Ebook Formats

  
  TechBlogs Today — Authority: 517
  “We use the epub format: It is the most popular open book format in the world.” That’s how Steve Jobs announced the iPad. And wow, that sounds like all the ebooks you own will just work on anything. Um, no. The idea of an open ebook format that works on any reader sounds nice. Buy it from any source, read it ...
  1 week ago

• That Was Fast! Vooks Go Mainstream

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 496
  If youre under the impression that vooks, the book/video hybrid, are the e-book equivalent of a garage band, check out John Makinsons vision for them. Makinson is CEO of Penguin Group, a company that reserves its garage for executive limos. Makinson recently demonstrated before a London conference how his companys ...
  1 week ago

• E-book publishers should learn about cross-platform availability from Valve

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Today Valve Software officially announced that its Steam digital game distribution platform will be coming to the Macintosh in April. But they are not stopping there. Macintosh owners who have already purchased the PC version of compatible Valve games (those built on the Source engine, such as Half-Life 2 , ...
  1 week ago

• ePub Converter 2.1 to convert documents for ebook readers

  
  Digital Documents — Authority: 122
  ePub Converter 2.1 is an efficient tool to convert the PDF, HTML, XML, TXT, GIF and JPEG documents in to ePub file format. The ePub files are supported by majority of the ebook readers in market including iPhone, Kindle and Sony Reader. ePub Converter 2.1 supports batch and user interface conversion of documents. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quick Notes: Paper apps, Opera, DMCA, iBooks, and more

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that the Wall Street Journal will be on the iPad . Meanwhile, the Washington Post just launched a paid subscription mobile news app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The price isn’t bad—$1.99 for 12 months—but this could go up after the first year. From Nate’s Ebook News comes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sony Reader Daily Edition reviewed: unworthy of cost premium or love

  
  TechBlogs Today — Authority: 517
  For all the fuss made at its launch back in August , Sony’s Reader Daily Edition has all but dropped off the map in terms of interest. Remember, Sony’s response to the Kindle gave us a 7-inch touchscreen device with free AT&T 3G data for a street price of $399. Now we’ve got a proper in-depth review of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Latest pReader Update Adds ePub Support

  
  TechBlogs Today — Authority: 517
  pReader , a homebrew graduate that already supported Secure eReader and Secure Mobipocket formats for e-books (something that has substantially softened the impact of eReader’s own lack of webOS plans ), reached another milestone this week when its author Jappus announced “experimental ePub support” with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Converting a Novel from InDesign to ePub: Part 2

  
  Idle Thoughts — Authority: 406
  At the end of the previous post, I had a functional ePub file of the novel Pixie Dust.  Unfortunately, when I open the file in Adobes Digital Editions, calibre, and iPhones Stanza  I quickly see numerous formatting errors, despite my preparation.  Well, I was expecting this.  Lets get to the next step, making ...
  2 weeks ago

• DRM, Digital Content and the Consumer Experience: Lessons Learned from the Music Industry

  
  Medialoper — Authority: 114
  This is a screencast of the DRM presentations I gave last week at O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference.
  2 weeks ago

• Latest pReader Update Adds ePub Support

  
  PreCentral.net — Authority: 685
  pReader , a homebrew graduate that already supported Secure eReader and Secure Mobipocket formats for e-books (something that has substantially softened the impact of eReader’s own lack of webOS plans ), reached another milestone this week when its author Jappus announced “experimental ePub support” with ...
  2 weeks ago

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