I’m Breaking Up With Grammarly
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 to share my criticism of the service. If you [Read More ...]
ebook tools
14 Apps That Help You Make eBooks
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 to a single distribution channel. [Read More ...]
Kindle Create Lets You Make a Kindle eBook From a Word File
Amazon has launched a new tool that lets you make an ebook out of a Word file. It is called Kindle Create, and was released this week for Windows and macOS. Amazon has released a number of tools you [Read More ...]
eBook Library App Calibre Turns Ten Today
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 that he could use the then-new [Read More ...]
U-Cal Press, Calif. Digital Library Partner to Build Open Source Academic Publishing Platform
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 publishing, for example, the print book [Read More ...]
Amazon Releases New Kindle Publishing Guidelines, Kindle Previewer
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 web features like hyphenation and drop caps, I have [Read More ...]
How to View Epub, Kindle eBooks in OSX Quick Look
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 one's PC to manage files. Neither Windows nor OSX natively [Read More ...]
Sigil Gets Closer to Epub3 Editing in Beta Release
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 change. The developers of Sigil [Read More ...]
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 [Read More ...]
What Are the Best SpellCheck and Grammar Check Browser Extensions?
We're still quite a ways away from IBM's Watson Tone Analyzer growing into a developmental editor bot, but luckily for us simpler tools are very common. Gizmodo has a post up today that reminded me [Read More ...]
IBM Watson Tone Analyzer Could be the First Step Towards a Developmental Editor Bot
Writers have all sorts of automated tools at their disposal, including spellcheck, grammar check, word macros, Draftback, and (one day, hopefully) bots, and IBM wants to add another tool to [Read More ...]
Aeneas is An Open Source Tool for Syncing Audiobooks and eBooks
Amazon's Whispersync for Voice is one of the niftier features for the Kindle platform. It lets you easily switch from an ebook to a matching audiobook and back without loosing your reading or [Read More ...]
Kindle Textbook Creator Now Lets You Embed Audio & Video
Amazon released the first major update for their three-month-old textbook creation app today, and it's finally getting useful. Kindle Textbook Creator still accepts only PDF as the source file, and [Read More ...]
Wri.tt is a Distraction-Free Writing App
Want a free word processing app which gets out of the way of your writing? Then check out Wri.tt (or Write! as it is called on its website), which just crossed my desk today. While there is no [Read More ...]
iBooks Author Updated With InDesign and Epub Importer
Apple rolled out a new update for their ebook making app yesterday with a few major updates. The app is still limited to only running on OSX, but on the plus side it gained new features. According to [Read More ...]