Episode 77 – Google Nexus 7 News ABA gives an update on the plans for a replacement for the Google eBook sales engine for indie bookstores Update on DOJ case: settling publishers want to not have to give up discovery Califa (library system) to purchase 10,000 books from Smashwords for $3 each ePub3 support Grid [...]
Episode 64 – Adobe Reading Systems with Micah Bowers Special Guest Micah Bowers of Bluefire Productions News Kindle Touch updated to 5.0.3 Kindle lending library paying off early on SendToKindle Coliloquy Active Fiction Overdrive releases numbers for 2011 Great discussion between Dan Rodney and a B&N rep on how Nook platform allows overriding publisher defaults. [...]
We had someone ask about the gear we use for our sound setup. We feed everything through a mixer including any devices for soundboards and record the output on a pc using audacity. Here is the hardware: Behringer 1002B Xenyx Premium 10-Input 2-Bus Mixer with Xenyx Preamps, British Eqs And Optional Battery Operation Behringer XM1800S [...]
This is showing off some Cool SVG Text working in a Read Aloud book for iBooks. Our Architect, Bridget, put a lot of work into making this look beautiful!
Episode 55 – We Got Sound News: eBook suscriptions in Spain Nook Tablet Kobo may not be big in America, but someone in Japan sure likes it ComiXology on the Fire Bookeen Odessy to launch in Europe Amazon gives away 6000 copies of an authors book Kindle being sold in stores 26% of likely buyers [...]
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.
Episode 26 News iOS 4.3 released Self-publishing authors find success at the 99 cent price point Chris’s re-imagine tip lists Comments So Inkling embraces scrolling content: http://www.inkling.com/blog/designing-digital/ But maybe scrolling is not so good. http://casanchez.faculty.asu.edu/pubs/scroll.pdf #ePrdctn Workshop – fill out the survey! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZYMJKJ SXSW meet-up! Beer and Books Monday evening Toby will be attending Google: [...]
Episode 20 – Fonts CORRECTION: Joshua was on a business trip last week, not at DBW. He WILL be at DBW next week. Listener feedback Jennings Crawford from Libre Digital: title pages and branding, sales links in samples News Aldiko 2.0, http://www.aldiko.com/blog/aldiko-book-reader-2-0-is-now-available-to-all eBook Technologies revisited Amazon buys out lovefilm.com (European Netflix) http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/moguls-at-amazon-buy-out-netflix-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AKindleWorld+(A+Kindle+World+blog) Fonts Default fonts [...]
Episode 19 – Joshua isn’t here While Joshua is at Digital Book World, Toby, Chris, and Kyle hijack the podcast and discuss front and back matter in books. Listener feedback Tom Semple from kindlecookies.com: more on the NCX view News Kindle app for iOS 4+ gets updated, file sharing in iTunes, bg d/l, “open in”, [...]
Episode 17 – 2010 Year in Review Our colleague Kyle joins us to discuss 2010: the year of the eBook. News iFlow Reader HD very cool scrolling, or screen-by-screen store purchases only mobipocket ending distribution for Kindle store in favor of DTP. Wait, what? http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/mobipocket-will-end-publishing-for-distribution-in-the-kindle-store/ 2010 January Agency Model takes over eBooks (Amazon caves to [...]