Like Google and Apple, Kobo uses its own unique form of the Epub ebook file format. Google’s file format has no known name, and of course...Continue reading
After having officially subsumed the IDPF earlier this year, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has announced its first ebook publishing summit: W3C opened today registration for its...Continue reading
When news broke earlier this week that the Russian media retailer LitRes was adopting the FB3 ebook format, all we had to go on were the...Continue reading
The best epub add-ons for Firefox needs your help. Michael Volz, the developer of the EpubReader Add-On for Firefox, launched a KS campaign last week to...Continue reading
The IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) is about to be subsumed into the W3C, hand over its control of the Epub standard, and vanish into the...Continue reading
Virtually all web browsers natively support PDFs, but the next version of the Microsoft Edge browser does more. BetaNews and VentureBeat report the new Windows 10...Continue reading
My colleague with the confusingly named blog pondered this morning on whether Amazon should add support for Epub on the Kindle platform. I’ve wondering about that point for the...Continue reading
Earlier this week Google added a new export option for Google Docs which let you produce an Epub file from the webdoc you’re working on, but...Continue reading
eBook fans have long had to contend with snobs who separate “real” books from ebooks, and now we’re starting to turn on ourselves. The most surprising...Continue reading
Authors have long been told that they should promote their books on Twitter, but until now there was no easy way to embed a sample of...Continue reading
Most major ebook platforms offer a web-based reading option, including Google, Amazon, and even B&N, and now we can add txtr to that list. The Berlin-based...Continue reading
Epub was originally conceived as a universal ebook format, but as anyone can tell you that has long since stopped being true. Between each of the...Continue reading