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Join Dan Jost and Todd Ebe Thursday, February 28 at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT for a free webcast and learn how Inkling Habitat and the Inkling Content Discovery Platform will help publishers build beautiful, high-fidelity digital books and provide powerful new ways to drive content discovery for consumers.
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By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid
E-textbook creator and seller Inkling has launched a new e-book creation tool for “professional” users that has the potential to impact the digital workflows at major publishing houses.
“With Habitat, we’re going to be introducing a method for the industry to scale and build born-digital content,” said Inkling
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Direct competition to Apple’s new program – without the restrictions. From Paid Content:
Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a bit like iBooks Author, but a preview of the program suggests that it is indeed as Inkling describes it—a program for professional publishers producing
6458 readersThe self-publishing service Lulu is trying to expand its eBook publishing arm at the moment, and yesterday David Woodward posted an updated copy of the Lulu eBook Creator Guide.
Lulu accepts PDF, Epub, and DOC files, but as you may know DOC files need to be converted to a real eBook format before they’re sold. Conversion
1446 readersThe news, released today, that the San Francisco-based Inkling has decided to give away for free its “collaborative digital publishing environment” known as Inkling Habitat was probably the e-publishing community’s most eyebrow-raising story of the week thus far. As Laura Hazard Owen wrote today for Paid Content, the company “has spent three years and $30
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890 readersMissed the DBW webcast on HTML5 for publishing decision makers earlier this week? See below Inkling’s Brad Neuberg deliver his portion of the presentation, a demonstration of HTML5 in Habitat, Inkling’s content creation tool.
You can also watch the rest of the webcast in our webcast archives.
HTML5 in Inkling Habitat from Brad Neuberg on Vimeo.
2048 readersThe self-pub platform Lulu and B&N, owners of the second most popular ebook reader, announced today that they will be forming a new cooperative relationship. Lulu customers will find it easier than ever before to make and distribute their eBooks through the Barnes & Noble Nook Store.
Lulu got its start in 2002 as a POD
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A year after unveiling its Habitat professional interactive ebook production tool, Inkling is launching its tool to the public, complete with “end-to-end” integration of the tool into its new strategy which makes all parts of an ebook searchable in Google, effectively turning the world’s largest search engine into a storefront.
The tool was officially unveiled to
1274 readersIn a talk this morning at the O’Reilly Media Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York, Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis, showed off Inkling Habitat, the company’s new software for creating interactive books for the iPad.
The has an “bject-oriented content structure” meaning that it has moved the idea of designing books from a page-based model to
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According to self-publishing site Lulu.com, more of its users produce e-books, but more of its users’ sales come from print book. At the same time, selling both “each of the two types of formatting tends to help fuel the sale of the other,” says Lulu.com in the statement below. Just how this is so is