Posts Tagged ‘e-book’
Like many of you, I’m a big fan of e-books (see my blog post from June 30, 2011), but I’ve recently stubbed my toe on restrictions publishers have imposed on the rapidly growing number of e-book converts. And instead of yelling “ouch,” I’m posting this blog. The first time I encountered an issue was when [...]
In the rapidly growing arena of electronic publications, there are two open-source contestants for the e-book market: EPUB and PDF. A little background The EPUB format, based on HTML/XHTML, is primarily used for the commercial book market. As the most widely used e-book format, it is supported by all major e-readers except Kindle (but that is [...]
OK, my mother was right…“Never say never!” I swore up and down that I would never buy an e-reader because I’m strictly a “real book” person. Even though professionally I’m totally immersed in new technology, when it comes to reading for pleasure, I swore I would never give up reading from those old-fashioned objects called [...]
A little background In a recent post, we discussed the major problem that most people experience when reading PDFs on mobile devices – the fact that the text does not reflow (as it does with e-books). To read a PDF on mobile, most of us typically zoom the content, which causes text to be truncated [...]
Here’s the good news – creating e-books is not just for the big boys anymore – you can “DIY” and create an e-book of your own! The open epub standard is what makes this possible. What’s an epub? An epub, which is based on html/xhtml, is really just a .zip file that contains the [...]