Thursday, February 04, 2010
The publisher O'Reilly have a School of Technology where you can pick up a course on, amongst other things 'HTML and CSS', and XML.
These courses provide certification from the University of Illinois and are priced between $300 to $400 each.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Mike Cane writes: and I agree
Steve Jobs hates ePub. He hates eBooks.
How can anyone with his refined sense of taste not hate them?
They’re an abomination. A tasteless — and incompetent — techie committee solution to electronic books.
Read the article here from epub « WordPress.com Tag Feed.
Textbook Firms Ink E-Deals For iPad — Major textbook publishers have struck deals with software company ScrollMotion Inc. to adapt their textbooks for the electronic page, as the industry embraces a hope that digital devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPad will transform the classroom.
Read the article here from Techmeme.
Kassia Krozser says:
Short answer: nobody knows.
Longer answer: the magic elixir publishers are injecting into ebooks in hopes they will entice people to pay higher prices.
Read the article here from Booksquare.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Lighting fires. No not even that.
Apple launched the iPad yesterday and so now the debate rages about the device as an eBook reader. Here is what Ben Elowitz, is saying over at Techcrunch.
The really good news is that the iPad supports ePub so Pagetoscreen can help you make eBooks in this format.
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
March 11, 10 - 06:04 pm
I'm amazed at the number of books on HTML5 that Amazon have for pre-order.
Chris Coyier's excellent resource
ePub format ebooks. Contribute a design for Middlemarch.
Born Magazine: Art and Literature Collaboration:
Mostly Flash authored material. Collaborations between artists/designers and writers/poets.
Publisher of Hypertext fiction
ScrollMotion - Original iPhone Applications:
Another eBook reader for the iPhone
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