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,...
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Category: Epub3
W3C to Hold eBook Publishing Summit in November
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 W3C...
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Under the Hood and Behind the Curtains of the FB3 eBook Format
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...
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Last Ditch Effort to Block W3C Takeover of IDPF
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...
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Helicon to Unveil Cloud Reading Platform at Frankfurt Book Fair
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 years Helicon...
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EpubCheck 4.0 Released
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 compiled...
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Correction: iBooks Author Updated, Can Now Make and Export Epub3 Files
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...
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Sigil Can Now Make Epub3 Files
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...
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Scripler Lets You Craft eBooks Online
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...
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Duolir Lets You Read a Dual-Language eBook With Instant Translations
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...
Continue readingWundr Launches Epub3 Creation Tool Playwrite for OSX
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 release, Playwrite offers an ...
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The Problem with Fixed Layout eBooks
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...
Continue readingAdobe Digital Editions 4.0.3 Update Adds MathML, Better Support for Audio and Video
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...
Continue readingAdobe Digital Editions Launches on the iPad
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....
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JellyBooks Launches Google Analytics for eBooks at DBW 2015
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...
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