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The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books

The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books

The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated Tech pundits recently moved up the date for the death of the book, to sometime around 2015, inspired largely by the rapid adoption of the iPad and the success of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. But in their rush to christen a new era of media consumption, have the pundits overreached? I’m calling the peak of inflated expectations now. The signs of a hype bubble are all around us. In Clearwater, Florida, the principle of the local high school recently replaced all his students’ textbooks with latest-gen Kindles - without, apparently, any awareness that formal trials of the Kindle as a textbook replacement led universities like Princeton and Arizona State University to reject it as inadequate. Then you have pundits like Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT’s Media Lab, making statements to the effect that the physical book is dead in 5 years. How can that be possible, when Amazon recently said that ebooks are outselling hard-cover books at Amazon.com? Many tech pundit wants books to die.

.epub eBooks Tutorial Jedisaber.com Original Content:Home | Books | eBooks | Other | Links | Fan Content: Andromeda | Avatars | Anime | Dark Angel | Matrix | Pern | Stargate | Star Trek | Star Wars Introduction: What is ePub? First, let's go check out the official specs. IDPF Specs: Note: If you want to download an ePub file to un-zip and poke at it's guts to see how it works, I recommend either the sample ePub file mentioned in this guide, or "A Girl of the Commune" by G.A. The XML files are all the other stuff in the ePub book that tells where your content is, and what to do with it. Before we start preparing our own eBook, lets look inside a sample file. Download the sample file to your hard drive Rename the .epub extension to .zip Open the Zip file Great. The root of the zip file The Meta-inf folder the OEBPS folder A .epub file contains, at a bare minimum, the following files/folders: Lets look at each of these in more detail. One thing to note before we get started: the filenames are case sensitive. <?

O'Reilly Labs BookGlutton - Social Reading eBooks 101: The Digital Content Strategy for Reaching Customers Anywhere, Anytime on Any Device « Against-the-Grain.com A Case Study Webinar with ASTD THUR • MARCH 31 • 2:00 PM EDTRegister Now Whether you sell books, software, or pharmaceuticals — if you produce or distribute large volumes of content, you’re a publisher — and are faced with how to provide your customers the content they need, when they need it, in their language, and on their preferred device. eBooks are an ideal solution. If you’re considering a foray into eBook or app production, join digital publishing maven Ann Rockley, the principal author of eBooks 101: The Digital Content Strategy for Reaching Customers Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device for this free one-hour webinar. An open Q&A session will follow the presentations.

Publishing Technology Blog Books Without Borders: The Digital Infinite Library | Endless Innovation It almost goes without saying that the recent demise of bookseller Borders, which is in the process of liquidating more than 200 of its superstores around the nation, was inevitable. The rise of digital book culture has made many of the traditional trappings of a physical bookstore presence obsolete. Booksellers like Borders and Barnes & Noble are trying their best to innovate their way out of a difficult situation - dedicating more floorspace to digital book readers, emphasizing higher-margin multimedia items (educational toys) and hosting more live events to draw in neighborhood foot traffic - but the economics of the publishing industry have forever changed. And that's where it gets interesting. In other words, in exchange for continuing to make books available to us in digital format, we are implicitly assigning a company like Amazon, Google or Apple the privilege to act as the ultimate "gatekeeper" for our books. But does the Digital Infinite Library approach make sense?

Feedbooks | Free eBooks for Android & iPhone/iPad Where U.S. Ebook Buyers Live Have you ever wondered where the most voracious ebook readers live? Probably not. It's a fun question, though, and for the first time ever I present the data to you. I set out to determine which states ebook buyers live in, and then I wanted to know how the states stack up against one another. The numbers are surprising, especially when you look at per capita consumption. Here's how I pulled together the numbers below. So here's the first set of data, where I look at which states generate the highest (and lowest) overall sales. US States, Ranked by Aggregate Ebook PurchasesSource: Smashwords data Now here's where it gets really interesting. Per Capita Ebook ConsumptionSource: Smashwords data A good statistician (and I don't claim to be one - I earned a D+ in statistics at UC Berkeley, and after retaking the class I earned a B-, nothing to brag about so I won't), I should poke some holes in my data. I published my raw data online over at the Smashwords Slideshare channel.

E2BU The Idea Logical Company and Digital Book World have partnered to offer Enhanced Ebook University (E2BU). We believe the sudden interest of many publishers in the idea of enhanced ebooks calls for a broad and deep survey of what they are and how to think about them. That’s what this project will do. Enhanced Ebook University was created to provide background, perspective, and grounding for what we believe will be pretty widespread ebook creation efforts in the months to come. Register for the WEBcast series today, plus receive the White Paper, Enhanced Ebooks Today and Tomorrow, and save over 25% when you use the Promo Code DBWE2BU. DBW Members get an even larger discount – 40% off the list price – for a total savings of $160! Haven’t joined DBW as a member? From the general, including a catalog of options for enhancement, to the specific, like how to make the difficult decision of whether to outsource development, the report provides the background every decision maker must possess.

No Shelf Required — A moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers. From the OverDrive blog: OverDrive conducted an end user survey from June 26-July 15, 2015. Administered via library websites, the survey collected input from 16,756 respondents. Their full report examines the positive effect the shift to digital content has had on the role of libraries in their communities by helping attract new readers, serve existing patrons better and reach beyond their physical walls. There is a nice infographic on the original OverDrive blog post. Click here to see the full report and survey. MADISON, Wis. “We’re excited to add the Boopsie team and software platform to our global organization because their people, technology and user-centric approach are designed to deliver a superior experience for librarians and their patrons. I am the former Editor-in-Chief of TeleRead, the Internet’s first blog devoted to ebooks. This is a listing of those tweets for the last week. (Denver, CO) September 15, 2015: Why are libraries screwed by ebooks now? Toshiba BookLive!

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