Amazon just took another step towards complete dominance of the book market supply chain. The retailer could already handle everything from production to the retail sale,...Continue reading
I was just catching up with the #ePrdctn tag over on Twitter when I read that Amazon has removed the KindleGen ebook-creation tool from its website....Continue reading
Don your jacket with puffy shoulders, because WordPerfect is back. The latest version of this office suite now supports Epub export. (Side note: I’ve added it...Continue reading
Amazon still won’t convert a user’s Epub ebooks to Kindle format, but luckily there are alternatives such as Calibre or the converter Reedsy launched a few...Continue reading
The online ebook creation tool Pressbooks.com was updated yesterday. I can’t see any changes to the admin pages, but the front-end looks a lot different. Pressbooks...Continue reading
I just got an email from Amazon informing me that they have retired Kindle Textbook Creator in favor of Kindle Create. Kindle Textbook Creator is now...Continue reading
eBook distributor PublishDrive just launched their own ebook conversion tool. It takes in DOCX files and produces Epub and Mobi files. BTW, I also added this...Continue reading
I have just canceled my subscription to Grammarly’s writing tool, and after having sent a ranty email to Grammarly’s PR rep I thought it would be helpful...Continue reading
Amazon may be quietly locking out its competition with ebook creation apps like the newly released Kindle Creator, but not all ebook creation apps tie you down...Continue reading
Ten years ago today a physics grad student at CalTech announced on MobileRead that he had reverse-engineered the USB driver protocols for the Sony Reader PRS-500 so...Continue reading
The consumer trade ebook market may get the majority of the press attention but it’s not the total sum of the digital publishing industry. In academic...Continue reading
Do you like fancy ebooks? Then you should probably go somewhere other than the Kindle platform. But if you like your Kindle ebooks to have basic...Continue reading
Calibre is a great tool for managing your ebook library. It has a lot of cool tricks, but sometimes one wants to use the file system in...Continue reading
For the past ten months the open-source Epub creation tool Sigil has had an option to create Epub3 files, but only as a post-production conversion. Soon that will...Continue reading