When we create an article in JSON we're not simply stripping the closing tags from everything. We can also, for example, remove tags such as the tags required in blockquotes, because the insertion of these can be implied. Further, if… Read More

The nonprofit public issues website ProCon.org has created a microsite to look at the issue of tablets in the classroom versus the continued use of printed textbooks. The microsite will be officially unveiled to the public tomorrow via the public… Read More

Craig Mod, a writer and designer who was part of the original Flipboard app design team, has written a very interesting discussion of what book covers were originally meant to do, and what to do with “covers” in the age… Read More

It is great news that we can do this now.  I often read books with footnotes and if I check a footnote the “furthest page read” now becomes the footnote page at the end of the book.  This makes keeping… Read More

If you leave your Kindle on the new software will eventually be pushed to your unit.  Amazon doesn’t say anything about what’s new with the update, but Andrys Basten, in her excellent A Kindle World Blog, has this to say:… Read More

This is a little presentation on the research I am doing into getting a solid way of doing javascript popup footnotes in iBooks using a non-fixed layout.… Read More

This is a little presentation on the research I am doing into getting a solid way of doing javascript popup footnotes in iBooks using a non-fixed layout.… Read More

This is a little presentation on the research I am doing into getting a solid way of doing javascript popup footnotes in iBooks using a non-fixed layout.… Read More

This is a little presentation on the research I am doing into getting a solid way of doing javascript popup footnotes in iBooks using a non-fixed layout.… Read More

From the Smashwords blog: We updated the Smashwords Style Guide today to include improved instructions for building linked Tables of Contents, controlling your NCX, building intra-book links for footnotes and endnotes, and troubleshooting. The new instructions are included in an… Read More

A New Kind of Book has posted a couple of examples of how ebooks might add supplemental content like footnotes without interrupting the reading flow. If you’ve experienced footnotes or endnotes on the average modern ebook (at least on the… Read More

Many assume that the digital models that work in the United States and Europe can easily be applied to China, Latin America, and elsewhere in the developing world. This could not be more wrong, argues a new study “Digital Publishing… Read More

Non-linear app “reading” is perhaps more analogous to how we really learn than reading a straight narrative. By Edward Nawotka In today’s feature story Kirk Bowe, CTO of UK app developer TradeMobile, explains how the company is attempting to create… Read More

A NEW TEMPORARILY-FREE, INFORMATIONAL BOOK TODAY that could be lost in the larger listings you can see in the links-box below. Their Last Suppers: Legends of History and Their Final Meals, by Andrew Caldwell, 14 customer reviews, 4-1/2 stars Andrews… Read More