Inside ePub Updated

Inside ePub talks Preferred Vocabulary, Inline XML Islands, Out-of-Line XML Islands, and how OoL XML Islands should be included in ePub files in the latest Inside ePub [...]

Friday Five: Low Cost or Free ePub Creation/Conversion Tools

Although you could spend almost $700 on Adobe’s InDesign or a few hundred on Microsoft Office, there are a number of free or low-cost tools that allow you to create or convert your own ePub-formatted eBooks. (If you own Microsoft Word and you want to use it to create a document and convert to ePub, the [...]

Adobe Digital Editions v1.7.2

Adobe has released the v1.7.2 version of Adobe Digital Editions, the DRM ePub manager. The latest update includes support for Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and for Mac OSX 10.6 (32 and 64 bit), along with other fixes. Opera and Safari browser users will need to manually tweak how the browsers handle acsm files, and [...]

Short Review at OverDrive and Inside ePub Updates

In spite of not exactly liking the interface, OverDrive gives nook a thumbs-up.

Inside ePub gets down to the nitty-gritty and chews on “Design of an NCX handler class in C#”. Sounds almost musical. If you recall, Inside ePub is an in-depth guide to creating your own ePub editor, so it’s geared [...]

Friday Five: Non-Barnes and Noble eBook Sources

Welcome to the first Friday Five! (Alliteration for the win!) On Fridays, I’ll be unleashing top fives, lists with five items, subjects that have five things associated with them. Five shall be the number. Not three nor six but five. (To paraphrase a classic film.)

To kick off, let’s take a look at Non-Barnes and Noble eBook [...]

Inside ePub Update

The Inside ePub blog, a guide to developing your own ePub editor and understanding ePub structure, offers new posts about development, ePub code reference, and the ePub class [...]

Inside ePUB

Colin Hazlehurst has put together an interesting examination of the ePUB format in blog format, which he calls “Inside ePUB.” Hazlehurst’s series of articles examines the contents of ePUB, how the parts are put together, and includes tools and samples. Very interesting stuff for developers and for folks looking to create their own ePUB documents.

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