FlightDeck: A (potentially) very useful service for indies, self-publishing
FlightDeck: A (potentially) very useful service for indies, self-publishing
I was first turned on to FlightDeck by their very helpful – and free – guide to the differences between EPUB and Amazon’s KF8 standard, and the formatting choices that can ensure a good handoff from one format to the other. The Handbook it comes from is an extremely useful breakdown of the most important issues in formatting an ePub ebook – and remember that Amazon now accepts ePub filesas…
Publishing industry has witnessed revolution at its peak with digitization and it continued as an evolving process. The formats of electronic books kept on advancing with countless features and many believe that the saturation point was reached with the innovative enhanced ePub3 electronic books. Here are some points to be considered by the companies offering EPUB3 eBook formatting and conversion services to make sure that the enhanced eBooks get maximum acceptance.
The Readium project originally started in 2012 and was originally billed to be an open source EPUB 3 engine. It is basically a set of reading tools for the
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
eBook lending has not been the focus of much attention lately. OverDrive's CEO Steve Potash is expected to discuss how he thinks ePub3 will change lending and other issues soon.
The imminent prospect of ePub 3 has ushered in a whole new generation of ‘platform wars’: as ePub 3 becomes more interactive, fewer devices will be able to support the content...
Nu er det nye format af fremtidens e-bøger på plads!
Det er de færreste, som i virkeligheden går op i udviklingen af e-bogsformater, men det har faktisk en utrolig stor indflydelse på, hvordan e-bøger både bliver vist, og hvilken oplevelse man kan få ved at læse dem. Da ePub i 2009 blev 'opfundet' af en sammenslutning af en masse interessenter under paraply-organisationen IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) åbnede det døren for at vise e-bøger på andet end store skærme som din computer - pludselig var det muligt at få en god oplevelse ved at læse på mindre skærme som e-readers eller mobile enheder. Nu er den 3. version af det verdensomspændende e-bogsformat klar.
Hvad betyder det for fremtidens e-bøger?
I korte træk betyder det, at e-bøger vil give dig en langt bedre læseoplevelse. Udover en række optimeringer af tekst rendering er det alt overskyggende at ePub 3 nu understøtter HTML 5 - dvs. at du kan forvente at se langt mere dynamisk indhold i din e-bog, som video, lyd eller indhold, som lægger op til langt mere interaktivitet i e-bogen. Det nye format giver også nyt håb til digtere eller andre forfattere, hvor formen betyder lige så meget som indholdet. ePub 3 giver nemlig mulighed for at fastlåse typografien ved hjælp af SGV (Scalable Vector Graphics). Hvornår får vi de første e-bøger, som understøtter ePub 3 at se? Det er op til de enkelte forfattere og forlag at beslutte, hvilket format de vil udgive e-bøger i, men Riidr opfordrer alle til at eksperimentere. Vi regner med at have de første titler klar til salg på et tidspunkt i efteråret.
