Friday, April 02, 2010
Book design is not ebook design
Mary Griffith (author of Viral Learning, writes:
I’ve learned quite a bit about graphic design, especially book design, over the past couple decades—just enough to be dangerous, I suppose, but certainly enough to do a workmanlike job on Viral Learning, at least. My do-it-yourself design certainly wouldn’t win any design awards, but it’s good enough to keep it from irritating me every time I try to read any of it. Given how picky I am about text looking decent, that’s no small thing.
Read the article here from epub « WordPress.com Tag Feed.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Create EPUB eBooks with Adobe InDesign
I have noticed that Adobe are putting up some very useful resources to help in the process of building eBooks with the ePub format. Here is a recent post ob the Adobe blog:
Adobe Digital Publishing says:
I (Dave Dickson) haven't mentioned this on this blog before, but wanted to point out the resources on Adobe.com on how to create EPUB eBooks using Adobe InDesign.
Read the article here from Adobe Digital Publishing.
Monday, March 29, 2010
The iPad needs its HyperCard
O'Reilly Radar says:
Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE:
When I think about opportunities around the iPad, I recall the CD-ROM market of the late 1980s. CD-ROM followed packaged software but created a number of innovative "content" packages, creating new categories such as "edutainment" with products like Reader Rabbit.
Read the article here from O'Reilly Radar.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Apple Rolls Out iBooks Feature Page (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
Techmeme says:
Apple Rolls Out iBooks Feature Page
Read the article here from Techmeme.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
E-Book Giveaways Correlate to Higher Print Sales
Epicenter says:
Giving away an e-book seems to lead to at least a spike in sales of the print version, Researchers at Brigham Young University have found, especially for fiction.
Read the article here from Epicenter.
