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1381 readersEpisode 12.
Indexes
Special guest: Jan Wright: wrightinformation.com, twitter.com/WIndexing
Some sound issues as we fgure out recording Skype calls.
Indexes (not indicies) and how they can be used in eBooks.
No good tools for exporting an index with an eBook
Search just doesn’t cut it, we still need indexes
We love Grammar Girl
Possible evolution of indexes: metadata, etc…
Making eBooks smarter with metadata:
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215 readersEpisode 12.
Indexes
Special guest: Jan Wright: wrightinformation.com, twitter.com/WIndexing
Some sound issues as we fgure out recording Skype calls.
Indexes (not indicies) and how they can be used in eBooks.
No good tools for exporting an index with an eBook
Search just doesn’t cut it, we still need indexes
We love Grammar Girl
Possible evolution of indexes: metadata, etc…
Making eBooks smarter with metadata:
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218 readersEpisode 12.
Indexes
Special guest: Jan Wright: wrightinformation.com, twitter.com/WIndexing
Some sound issues as we fgure out recording Skype calls.
Indexes (not indicies) and how they can be used in eBooks.
No good tools for exporting an index with an eBook
Search just doesn’t cut it, we still need indexes
We love Grammar Girl
Possible evolution of indexes: metadata, etc…
Making eBooks smarter with metadata:
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4060 readersOn January 31, 2012, the IDPF member groups approved the charter for a working group to add indexes support to ePUB. The EPUB 3 Indexes Charter has been released and is available on the IDPF Website and on code.google. You can also follow the ePUB Working Group here.
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A well designed index can help instrument smarter ebooks, making it easier for readers to find & retrieve info more efficiently
Indexers are the offensive linemen of book publishing. No one notices their work until they screw up. The index has been on my mind lately, and not just because I cursed
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7180 readersEpisode 75
News
IDPF has published a draft of use cases for DRM built into the ePub spec. They are looking for feedback. also
http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/idpf-content-protection-technology-and-digital-publishing-with-bill-rosenblatt”>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/idpf-content-protection-technology-and-digital-publishing-with-bill-rosenblatt
IPG and Amazon finally agree to terms on eBook sales.
Apple submits a filing in the DOJ case saying that Amazon is monopolist and that Apple has helped foster innovation.
How Germany Keeps Amazon at Bay
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Peter Meyers is one of the most intelligent and creative people working in the ebook field today. The Kindle Chronicles has just posted an interview with him and I suggest you give it a listen. Anything Peter says is worth listening to.
Interview (starts at 11:13) – I spoke with Peter Meyers, author of the just-published Kindle Fire: The
351 readersDoes your Kindle sometimes start acting sluggish, for no apparent reason? If so, you might have an indexing issue. As you may know, when you download books to your Kindle, your device creates an index for each book to facilitate searching within a book. Most of the time, indexing goes smoothly. But sometimes not. Here’s
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3619 readersEpisode 67 - eBook Valuation with Peter Meyers
Special Guest
Peter Meyers
News
Kindle coming to Japan
Nook Simple Touch hacked, refresh rates improved
PayPal forces Smashwords to remove erotica titles
Interesting juxtaposition
https://twitter.com/#!/jasonashlock/status/174168933287464960/photo/1
http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/ebook-sales-up-but-slower-net-book-sales-fall
Amazon KDP select reaches 100,000 titles
Evo Terra’s author’s guide to SXSW
Javascript in eBooks???
Air Force cancels iPad electronic flight book program because GoodReader is made in Russia.
The Oatmeal comic sparks a
2176 readersAmazon has settled a 2009 patent lawsuit from Discovery, the company behind the Discovery Channel, the Military Channel, and others, PaidContent reports. (We mentioned the lawsuit here and here.) The patent, filed for in 1999 and granted in 2007, had to do with e-book copy protection and secure distribution. Although Discovery does not itself have