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Kepubify Can Make Kobo Kepub eBooks Out of (DRM-Free) Epub eBooks

17 December, 2017 // 6 Comments

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 Apple uses iBooks, but Kobo's take is called Kepub. Since [Read More ...]

W3C to Hold eBook Publishing Summit in November

20 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 first ever [Read More ...]

Under the Hood and Behind the Curtains of the FB3 eBook Format

8 April, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 sparse details in the official press release. That release [Read More ...]

Last Ditch Effort to Block W3C Takeover of IDPF

12 January, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 ether. That's the way things are supposed to [Read More ...]

Helicon to Unveil Cloud Reading Platform at Frankfurt Book Fair

21 September, 2015 // 2 Comments

Between Page Foundry, txtr, OverDrive, and Snapplify, there's no shortage of ebook providers offering a complete _DRM_ ebook platform (*). And now there's one more. Over the past several [Read More ...]

EpubCheck 4.0 Released

2 September, 2015 // 1 Comment

EpubCheck is the industry standard tool for verifying whether Epub files meet the official spec. The new version was made available to download on Github yesterday both as source code and as a [Read More ...]

Correction: iBooks Author Updated, Can Now Make and Export Epub3 Files

1 July, 2015 // 13 Comments

Apple got a lot of attention for yesterday's iOS 8.4 update, but that wasn't the only release to come down the pipe. The company also released a new version of iBooks Author which finally gave [Read More ...]

Sigil Can Now Make Epub3 Files

29 June, 2015 // 5 Comments

For the longest time this blogger has liked and recommended Sigil as an open-source Epub creation app. It's free, easy to use, and can be used to make a standard Epub ebook. And now I found a new [Read More ...]

Scripler Lets You Craft eBooks Online

11 June, 2015 // 10 Comments

Between eBookburn, Pressbooks, the Github Book Editor, and Papyrus, there are any number of tools to build an ebook online from scratch, and a new one just crossed my desk this morning. [Read More ...]

Duolir Lets You Read a Dual-Language eBook With Instant Translations

23 March, 2015 // 7 Comments

Many readers challenge themselves with books in other languages. Usually they have to install a translation dictionary in order to catch the nuances, but there are other options. Yesterday a friend [Read More ...]

Wundr Launches Epub3 Creation Tool Playwrite for OSX

24 February, 2015 // 7 Comments

Vancouver's own digital publishing services company Wundr announced on Wednesday of last week that it was launching a new Mac-only Epub3 creation tool. According to the press [Read More ...]

The Problem with Fixed Layout eBooks

22 February, 2015 // 13 Comments

Originally created to replace PDFs, fixed layout has become one of the standard methods to build an ebook. This format is used for everything from textbooks to cookbooks, and while it hasn't actually [Read More ...]

Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.3 Update Adds MathML, Better Support for Audio and Video

12 February, 2015 // 5 Comments

Adobe's rolled out a new updtae this week for its flagship Epub app today. According to the changelog, the update makes a couple changes to the interface, fixes a bug with deauthorized computers, [Read More ...]

Adobe Digital Editions Launches on the iPad

29 January, 2015 // 3 Comments

Sources have been telling me for about 3 months now that Adobe was going to release a Digital Editions app for the iPad, and that app showed up in iTunes yesterday. And like any new app, it could [Read More ...]

JellyBooks Launches Google Analytics for eBooks at DBW 2015

13 January, 2015 // 5 Comments

The hot story at the DBW conference today was an early demo of ebook startup JellyBooks' new ebook analytics project. Andrew Rhomberg, founder and CEO of Jellybooks, revealed in his presentation [Read More ...]

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