Archive for category: E-books

One more time: E-books do not contain ‘formatting’    (2010.10.18)

Craig Morgan Teicher is the latest æsthete to run screaming from E-book copy that is “swamped in code”

BookNet Canada Technology Forum pitch    (2010.10.07)

I proposed a session on structured documents for managers and editors for the BookNet Canada 2011 Technology Forum. The deadline for submissions was an insane six months in advance

Publishers as Flashturbators    (2010.08.31)

The Web is old enough that history can repeat itself. What’s happening now with E-books parallels what happened with Web sites in the early Aughties

Retraining readers of an industry organ    (2010.07.19)

A solicited proposal for a column on E-book production in Quill & Quire. Now, what do you think happened to it?

Travis J. Nichols’ ‘ugly stick’    (2010.07.15)

Travis J. Nichols will never figure this out, but “E-books” are perfectly capable of “formatting” poetry, not that E-books have “formatting”

Speaking at BookCamp 2010 on Saturday    (2010.05.13)

Scott Boms and I are talking about design and typography of E-books at BookCamp 2010.

‘Web Standards for E-Books’    (2010.03.09)

My new article on the use of ePub (hence XHTML) in electronic books is now out at A List Apart

Bet against HTML and you lose    (2010.01.29)

Bet against HTML for online distribution and you’ve backed the wrong horse

‘[E]very book that is being published now depends on something that is in Twitter’    (2010.01.22)

Mike Shatzkin is the latest to opine on the future of the book. And guess what: Everything that works for O’Reilly naturally will not work for you