Episode 105 News eBook spending is up Amazon Photo App Amazon coin Amazon buys Liquivista Toby’s dreams are coming true B&N rumors apparently not true Sony’s non-shiny prototype You can now test you epub on Google Play Books (thanks Tom… Read More

A single EPUB3 file can be used to create an ebook for all e-readers, explained Liz Castro, tech expert and author, at the IDPF conference in New York.Then Castro pointed out the obvious advantages of this efficiency:• Ebooks are less… Read More

Just last month Digital Book World debuted DBW U, an online education program. In DBW U’s self-paced courses students will learn from some of digital publishing’s most recognized experts on their own schedule.We’re aiming to help prepare digital publishing professionals… Read More

Today in Paris Readium.org launched its new open EPUB 3 SDK Project and has formalized a strong and varied consortium of international players to support it.… Read More

In a recent post on The Ebook Reader the author pondered on the mess that we now have with ebook formats.  As he so correctly points out, what used to be effectively the universal format for ebooks (ePub) has been… Read More

Sony is now children’s eBooks in the Sony Reader Store with the launch of Kids Corner, a dedicated shopping section that includes illustrated and enhanced children’s books. At launch, the eBook store is carrying many titles including Star Wars titles,… Read More

How Newsrooms Can Adopt a Mobile-First Mindset (Media Shift) Sony Launches New Kids Corner ePub3 Book Portal (Good e-Reader) Amazon Execs Set to Testify in Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (Paid Content) Five Shades of Book Discovery (Digital Book World) Kindle… Read More

Related: How Publishers Should Prepare for EPUB3 With the addition of the Kids Corner children’s digital reading platform to its Reader Store, Sony will begin to support the EPUB3 spec, a step none of the major U.S. ebook retailers has… Read More

The first publishing meeting of 2013 – the Digital Book World has ended, but has witnessed a real hype about EPUB3 and HTML5 as the new digital formats of choice. There is no consensus on where the future is taking… Read More

Want to turn your InDesign book files into eBooks? Check out Flipick. The tool lets you create eBooks for all of the various eBook platforms using your InDesign files. Check it out: “We take a book built using Adobe InDesign… Read More

From the EPUB3 spec ...… Read More

Whenever a new technology is released it is, out of necessity, hyped to the maximum to ensure adoption, and if you're not taking this into account when thinking about ebooks, then you'd be forgiven for believing that HTML5, CSS3, and… Read More

Episode 96 – Fran Toolan Guest Fran Toolan of Firebrand Technologies News Why no, the latest Paperwhite update did NOT fix the image bug. Kindle iOS update: Multicolor highlights Book end actions – when done with a book, Tweet or… Read More

Two important digital publishing system companies that use plug-in solutions today updated parts of their platform, adding features – and updating, in one case, their mobile and tablet app. Mag+ today updated their Mag+ Reviewer app as part of a… Read More