Betsy Granger joined the production team at Macmillan Learning just as they began an initiative to move to EPUBs as their standard digital delivery for ebooks. Here’s how she caught up, fast.
For the third year in a row, we want to test your coding abilities in the So You Think You Can Code challenge. There’s are great prizes up for grabs, so register for our contest and get to coding!
Offline capability is a key characteristic of modern Progressive Web Applications. There’s been steadily growing interest in making web applications survive in disconnected scenarios and Benjamin Young explains why this is so important.
We have even more speaker and session information to announce. The session topics range from selling diverse lists to the evolution of ebook apps to building pre-pub buzz for forthcoming books; and the speakers are industry experts!
The first step to harnessing the power of automation is learning what automation is capable of within your specific workflow, then deciding which pieces fit that workflow best.
Think InDesign can’t provide quality ebook output? Think again. By applying certain rules, you can effectively eliminate the need for a separate workflow and leverage InDesign for all it’s worth.
Accessibility is one of those aspects of publishing that everyone knows is important, though most people don’t fully understand it. Here’s a list of some of the most important terms, file types, organizations, and standards to understand.
With the recent approval of EPUB 3.1 as a recommended specification by the International Digital Publishing Forum, accessibility will no longer take a back seat. Benetech’s Born Accessible initiative helps to ensure that publications meet the new standards.
While you may have already been using CSS 3 in your ebooks, EPUB 3 has not officially supported it. Sure, it worked but it wasn’t required to. So what you were doing was actually a progressive enhancement.
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