Case Study: MOBI publishing from Docbook
BACKGROUND # In October of last year (2012) i was contacted by a German developer to do consulting on Docbook based ebook design and publishing. Because I had recently started a full time job I had to...
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Chip Kidd @ TED
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC0KxNeLp1E&w=500] I've always been amazed by how easliy Chip Kidd has managed to weave the serious and the whimsical aspects of book...
CSS regions, exclusions, shapes and new publishing paradigms
Introduction # Smashing Magazine Newspaper Designs article shows examples of what printed media can do. Having learned to use InDesign for ePub-based ebooks I've come to respect the power and...
SASS, SCSS, CSS and Modular Design
What is SASS? # SASS, syntactically aware style sheet, is a CSS pre-processor and scripting language that allows you flexibility in creating your CSS rules. It provides several programmatic tools to...
Craig Mod's Do Lecture
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Who is a publisher and How do you define publishing?
What happens when a publisher has a tight, direct connection with readers, is able to produce intellectual property that spreads, and can do both quickly and at low cost? Seth Godin About the Domino...
How Does Digital Affect Funding
Gone are the days where you had hoped that a big investor would see your project and hope that you'd make enough money to recoup the investors' money and maybe, if you're lucky, make some...
Docbook, XML and ebooks:Creating eBooks the old fashioned way
One of the most traditional ways to author content for multiple distribution channels is to roll up your sleeves, write XML and then convert it to your target format. For this exercise we will use...
Rethinking the future of books
With the introduction of all iPads and other tablet readers we are left with some big question: Are books still relevant? If they are still relevant, how do they need to change? Craig Mod has written...
Why ePub matters
eBooks are way more than text # Currently eBooks are a combination of both images and text... except for the Apple iBook reader. iBook borrowed from the draft ePub 3 specification (or was it the ePub...