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    ]]>     http://ebookninjas.com/2012/05/11/episode-73/feed/ 0     Episode 72 – End of eBooks? http://ebookninjas.com/2012/05/03/episode-72-end-of-ebooks/ http://ebookninjas.com/2012/05/03/episode-72-end-of-ebooks/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 00:01:24 +0000 admin http://ebookninjas.com/?p=125 Episode 72


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    ]]>     http://ebookninjas.com/2012/05/03/episode-72-end-of-ebooks/feed/ 0     Episode 71 – Author Education with Jeff Moriarty http://ebookninjas.com/2012/04/26/episode-71-author-education-with-jeff-moriarty/ http://ebookninjas.com/2012/04/26/episode-71-author-education-with-jeff-moriarty/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:02:37 +0000 admin http://ebookninjas.com/?p=115 Episode 71 – Author Education with Jeff Moriarty


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    • Brian O’Leary talks with O’Reilly about DRM, suggests data is not good enough to determine the impact of DRM, and that it doesn’t help in the fight against piracy anyway.
    • Vook gets $5.25 million in funding.
    • Scribd gets $13 million in funding.
    • Kindle Singles released.
    • Amazon now selling more Kindle books than paperbacks

    February

    • Apple rejects Sony’s eBook app for iPad/iPhone because of policy that does not allow apps to download files purchased outside the Applk store. This has implications for every other eBook app on iOS, inlcuding Kindle.
    • Official response from Apple: The Amazon app and other eBook apps will have to comply.
    • Harper Collins puts a cap of 26 downloads on library eBooks. More stupid moves by companies trying to shore up dying business models.
    • Random House announces that they are switching to the agency pricing model.

    March

    • Apple announces the iPad2
    • Amazon launches the Amazon Appstore with Android apps.
    • Federal judge rejects the Google Books settlement, says the agreement “would grant Google significant rights to exploit entire books, without permission of the copyright owners.”
    • Amanda Hocking, who many thought would be the darling of self-publishing, signed a 7-figure deal with St. Martin’s Press for four books.
    • MPS Limited announces ePub 3 services… before ePub 3 is released…

    April

    • Apple files a patent for a hybrid eInk/LCD screen. Interesting idea.
    • InDesign CS5.5 released. Better support for ePub exporting.
    • Amazon to offer library checkouts.

    May

    • iFlow Reader shuts down because of Apple’s new policies on in-app purchases.
    • Amazon officially sells more Kindle eBooks than print books.
    • Kobo introduces new touchscreen eReader.
    • B&N releases its new NOOK, a touchscreen model, no 3G.

    June

    • Apple changes an important point in its terms of service, allowing apps to download content that has not been purchased through the in-app purchasing. Apps that actually sell content must still use in-app purchasing, and links to outside stores are still not allowed.
    • J.K. Rowling will sell Harry Potter eBooks from her new website pottermore.com.
    • Amazon has dropped California Affiliates program because of tax issues.

    July

    • Borders liquidates.
    • Kindle iPad app updated; store links removed, newspapers and magazines added. Other apps updated to remove stores, too.
    • Android Market update includes eBooks.

    August

    • Apple and the Agency 5 have been hit with a class action lawsuit for price fixing and collusion. About time…
    • Digital Book World announces the newly updated Publishing Innovation Awards, and the QED (Quality, Excellence, Design) seal for eBooks. This is a much-needed program for the future of eBooks.
    • LibreDigital acquired by RR Donnelley.
    • Another major class action lawsuit against Apple and publishers, this one including Random House.
    • Steve Jobs steps down from Apple CEO, stays on as Chairman.
    • Amazon quietly releases a fixed layout format. No information on how these books are made, if they are PDFs or HTML-based, or about how to get titles up for sale with Amazon in this format.
    • Sony PRS-T1 spotted on a Dutch retail site. Interesting design. Possible Android backend?

    September

    • 3M invests in Pixel Qi, makers of the dual-mode LCD displays.
    • Kobo Vox reader leaked via the FCC.
    • Amazon releases three new devices. Lowest-priced device changes the game dramatically ($80?!?!). Kindle Fire has some great specs and a price point that is below the expected range.
    • B&N stock plunges.
    • Apple vs. Amazon? No, its Apple and Amazon vs. Everyone Else

    October

    • ePub 3 becomes final specification.
    • Kobo releases the Kobo Vox. More of a competitor of the Nook Color than the Kindle Fire. Has access to the native Android OS, which makes it a decent $200 Android tablet.
    • Amazon announces the Kindle Format 8, with support for HTML 5 and CSS 3, fixed layout, comic books, and many other features.

    November

    • Kindle Lending Library launches. Amazon Prime membership and a Kindle device (not app) required. Small number of books available at launch, but more to come.
    • Sony dropped the price on the PRS-T1 (finally).
    • B&N releases the Nook Tablet. Not much different, really, and they are touting it as a HD-video device but they don’t sell the video…
    • Japanese company Rakuten buys Kobo.
    • Kobo Touch with Offers to sell for $100.
    • Amazon reportedly planning to ship 6 million Kindle Fires this quarter.
    • Penguin has suspended availabilty of their new eBooks from the Overdrive library.

    December

    • EU opens up an investigation of Apple and five publishers for price fixing.

    Predictions

    • 2011: We did pretty well
    • Matt: International growth, improvements in digitization and QA
    • Chris: Improvements at Kobo
    • Toby: Major color reflective e-ink style device
    • Joshua: Yes, international
      Kindle Fire 2 – large screen
      Kindle Fire 3 — better processor — end of the year
      iPad mini
      Sony gets less important
      Children’s books will become better, much more robust on B&N and Kindle
      ePub 3 will not be implemented across Apple, B&N, Sony, and Kobo until September

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    ]]>     http://ebookninjas.com/2011/12/22/episode-60-html5-with-sanders-kleinfeld/feed/ 0     Episode 59 – Iris Amelia and Learning ebook production http://ebookninjas.com/2011/12/15/episode-59-iris-amelia-and-learning-ebook-production/ http://ebookninjas.com/2011/12/15/episode-59-iris-amelia-and-learning-ebook-production/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:24:35 +0000 admin http://ebookninjas.com/?p=87 Episode 59 – Iris Amelia


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    Behringer 1002B Xenyx Premium 10-Input 2-Bus Mixer with Xenyx Preamps, British Eqs And Optional Battery Operation

    Behringer XM1800S Dynamic Cardioid Vocal Microphones, 3-Pack

    On Stage Foam Ball-Type Mic Windscreen, Black

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    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!

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    Episode 52 – Vox


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    Kobo Vox

    Kindle Fire

    Nook Color

    Display

    7" AFFS+ multimedia display

    7" multi-touch with IPS

    7" VividView™ with IPS

    Size (in inches)

    7.57" x 5.06" x 0.53"

    7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45"

    8.1" x 5" x 0.48"

    Weight

    14.2 oz.

    14.6 oz.

    15.6 oz.

    Processor

    800 Mhz; 512 RAM

    1GHz dual-core TI OMAP4

    TI OMAP 3621 @ 800Mhz, 512MB

    On-device Storage

    8GB internal, 32 GB SD Memory Card option

    8GB internal

    8GB internal, 32 GB SD Memory Card option

    Cloud Storage

    unlimited Kobo eBook cloud storage

    Free cloud storage for all Amazon content

     

    Battery Life

    7 hours wireless off

    8 hours reading  with wireless off

    8 hours reading  with wireless off

    Wi-Fi Connectivity

    Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

    Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n

    Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n

    USB Port

    Micro USB

    USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)

    USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)

    Audio

    3.5 mm stereo jack, one speaker

    3.5 mm stereo jack, stereo speakers

    3.5 mm stereo jack, one speaker

    Resolution

    1024 x 600

    1024 x 600 — 169 ppi, 16 million colors

    1024 x 600 — 169 ppi, 16 million colors

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    NOTE: Chris forgot to change the sound input. Our apologies for the sound issues.

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    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.

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    • Frank says thanks for the feedback change.
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    • Cynthia – new listener love

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    Feedback:

    • Lauren in Florida: No, we haven’t rooted our Nook Touch
    • Tom Semple: eBook stores
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    • Dedicated eReaders vs. multifunction devices.

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    • Broken Kindle apps

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    Feedback:

    • Tom Semple: apparently we said the new Nook was not Android, but it is. (Joshua: my bad, I was postulating a theory without research. You can root the new Nook, too..)
    • Jane: We talk over each other. Yeah, it’s a problem in the office, too.
    • Zls Publishing (via Facebook) “…the problem with the articles panel is that you can’t use it in the Book Feature. You have to create the article chapter by chapter. That sucks! I want to be able to use the articles panel once I’ve put all the chapter together into one book!” (and he uses ecub)

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    Feedback:

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    Listener feedback

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    Listener feedback

    • Tony Roberts: Kindle bloat & 5-way controller hang follow-up
    • Roger Morgan
    • Tom Semple

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    • Kindle
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    Listener feedback

    • Tom Semple: Thoughts about KindleGen. Will the extra bloat still be there once you purchase a book?
    • Robbie Sparks: “Also I think your comment regarding the whole suite upgrade to CS5.5 is incorrect – it’s the reason it was titled 5.5 rather than 6 because of it being a partial upgrade. More cash…..” (http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/04/introducing-adobe-creative-suite-5-5-product-family.html)
    • Tony Roberts: Strange. 5-way controller problems

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    Listener feedback

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    Listener feedback

    • @Jurate (from Stockhom)
    • Robert Nagle
    • Gary Bedard
    • Tony Roberts: no, InDesign is not in our workflow.

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    InDesign CS 5.5

    • Special thanks to Colin Fleming from Adobe

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    Web sites as complements to ebooks

     

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    Listener feedback

    • eBookNoir: #ePrdctn listening 2 eBook ninjas on metada, nice discussion on cell companies as well, but luv the piece abt quality of eBook production
    • DC Denison: Only got the 2nd of two part through his ipod listening tool. Picked up second after he heard us explain.

    News

    More or Less Chrome on eReaders?

    • With ePub3 Books will have the ability to add interactivity. Including the possibility of displaying the Toc and Nav. Could we start to see Navs and Toc functionality packaged in the eBook where content is less dependant on the functionality of the reader?
    • Textbooks require special functionality that would either be in the ePub3 package or have to be in the

    Re-imagine tip

    • floating things. Kindle can’t float. In ePub, do you really want to float?

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    Listener feedback

    • Howard Cornett: name misspelled and OPDS
    • Arnold Schmidt: potential workshop space in sunny CA
    • Tom Semple: Got his Job back @ Adobe. Grats!
      • Most reading systems have a basic reference to tell you where you are at in the book.
      • Tom likes the idea of biblical references in books, however, it would take a large amount of work on the side of the publisher/author to standardize on such an identifier.
      • Margenalia is a lot like metadata. Tom wagers that google will figure out how to do search and reference metadata.

    News

    Metadata

     

    Re-imagine tip

    • section heads

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    We continue the discussion with Todd

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    First

    • A big thanks to everyone in Japan and New Zealand who have been listening over the last few weeks. You guys rock!

    Feedback

    • Scott Weber: “what is the best way for a writer to format or write his original document? Obviously the document will need to be tweaked or modified depending on how complex it is and who’s going to publish it, but if I write my book in Word without any formatting whatsoever, am I helping the process or hindering it?”
    • Howard Cornet: wants to subscribe through google listen
      www.ebookninjas.com/feed/ into reader.google.com and then place the subscription in your listen items OR
      in the phone go to my subscriptions and add subscription

    News

    Chris’s (Toby’s?) re-imagine tip

    • tables

    Todd Sattersten

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    News

    Chris’s re-imagine tip

    • lists

    Comments

    #ePrdctn Workshop – fill out the survey!

    SXSW meet-up! Beer and Books Monday evening
    Toby will be attending Google: League of Hackers on Sunday (Chris will probably be working)
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    Listener feedback

    • Chris: sorry if you got a partial file.
    • Steven Schwindt: I want to find an ebook reader sold in China that accepts ebooks in Mandarin as well as English.
    • Tom Semple: “I find I’m uncharacteristically subdued.”

    News

    ePub 3

     

    Chris’s re-imagine tip

    • Section breaks

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    Listener feedback

    • Tony: does Kindle handle gif transparency? Answer: NO (regarding the example book: it was Topaz)
    • Gary Bedard: antivirus software for ereaders?
    • Tom Semple: http://readsrantsandruminations.blogspot.com/2011/02/thoughts-on-apples-rejection-of-sonys.html

    News

    Tools of Change

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    Listener feedback

    News

    eBook Citations

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    Listener feedback

    • Arnold asks about DRM
    • Tom Semper revisits iFlow, and links us to MegaReader

    News

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    Listener feedback

    • Kyle: enhanced eBooks – CDs & DVDs
    • thanks Gary for feedback on skype and the awesome review
    • Chris: add TOC item to iBooks NCX view

    News

    Ebook Design and Layout Techniques

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    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

    Fonts

    • Default fonts in Kindle
    • Default fonts in ePub readers
      • iBooks – iosfonts.com
        • Embedding fonts in apple now requires a com file in the META-INF with an option <option name=”specified-fonts”>true</option>
      • Nook, Sony, etc.
    • Embedding
      • ADE character support sucks
      • Web Open Fonts Format
        • Lossless file compression
        • Added Font metadata
        • Currently the use of WOFF asks that you give a link to the WOFF and the ttf for graceful degradation.
      • Google Font Directory

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    While Joshua is at Digital Book World, Toby, Chris, and Kyle hijack the podcast and discuss front and back matter in books.

    Listener feedback

    News

    DRM revisited

    Front matter and back matter. What do *you* do with it?

    • Does it need to be in the front?
    • Does it all need to be there?
    • What about metadata?
    • What about stuff coming through in samples?

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    We discuss what TOC and NCX are and why they’re needed.
    Chris tries out lending with Len Edgerly from http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/

    Listener feedback

    • one or more images?
    • we’re awesome
    • iFlow Reader update

    News

    • CES: tabletfest 2011 http://www.betanews.com/article/Tablets-look-to-steal-the-show-at-CES-and-beyond/1294087238
    • completely unrelated: Amazon announces Kindle for tablets and Win Phone 7 http://homedailynews.com/amazon-announced-apps-for-android-and-windows-based-devices/2209/
    • Amazon App store developer portal. Who’d have thought? https://developer.amazon.com/
    • NookKids for iPad released, Kobo for iPad updated
    • Writers without Borders: http://www.evilreads.com/blog/2011/1/3/writers-without-borders-charity-anthology-call-for-submissio.html
    • Cool Mirasol video: http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/01/05/first-look-at-the-new-mirasol-e-reader/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter-publisher-main&utm_campaign=twitter

    TOC/NCX

    Why to eBooks need TOCs?

    • Fiction books still need them?
    • Do ePubs need them even with the NCX?

    What’s an NCX, and how is it different than a TOC?

    Sections of the NCX

    • NavMap
    • PageList
    • NavList (like tours)

    How devices use the NCX

    • Kindle requires visible TOC, NCX useful for navigation
    • iBooks removes visible TOC in NCX TOC

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    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 Macmillan in January)

    February

    • Bowker releases official position paper confirming practice of each format getting a unique ISBN
    • Ibis Reader goes live/li>

    March

    • Joshua hires Toby — nepotism at its best (or worst)
    • Pew releases research stating internet now more popular than newspapers for news (didn’t this happen in 2002?)

    April

    • iPad Released (wow!) — 450,000 sold in first week; predictable slew of iPad killers fail at “killing”
    • US GAO says most piracy studies are junk (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars)
    • Bowker releases numbers for 2009: Traditional books 288,355 — Non-traditional (self-published) books 764,448, 181% increase over 2008 (http://www.bowker.com/index.php/press-releases/616-bowker-reports-traditional-us-book-production-flat-in-2009)
    • Kobo eReader ships, world yawns

    May

    • eBook Architects moves into new office, Chris starts
    • B&N announces PubIt!, author/publisher upload platform like the Amazon DTP

    June

    • Clearwater High School in St. Petersberg, FL, announces plans to give every student a Kindle in 2010 Fall semester
    • iPhone 4 announced
    • Bowker says that the Kindle has become the dominant eBook platform (over computers) (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/120138-dont-be-handcuffed-over-e-books-bowker-warns-bea.html)
    • WiFi-only nook released, price war with Kindle starts
    • Plastic Logic Que postponed indefintiely
    • Kindle Android App released
    • Amazon starts offering 70% royalty on titles within certain price range (competing with Apple)
    • Amazon announces video and audio support in some books in the iPad and iPhone apps

    July

    • Amazon awarded patent on Nook-like interface (large eInk, small LCD); Microsoft awarded patent on curling page turn
    • Cooler Reader in bankruptcy proceedings
    • Kindle eBook sales pass hardback books on Amazon
    • Apple announces support for HTML5 video and audio in iBooks
    • B&N releases Android app
    • Wilie Agency sidesteps publishers and offers some books on Kindle exclusively
    • Kindle 3 released

    August

    • B&N starts looking for money, trying to put itself up for sale
    • Foxit eSlick discontinued
    • Plastic Logic Que got kicked to the curb — finally
    • Apple Pages supports ePub generation
    • OPDS hits 1.0

    September

    • Cool-er reader comes back with new funding
    • US Court of Appeals says that re-selling digital licenses can be excluded by EULAs
    • B&N’s PubIt! system finally released — very good interface

    October

    • Amazon rumored to be working on Android app store and tablet
      (http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-rumored-to-be-preparing-android-store-tablet/)
    • Bluefire reader released on iPad
    • Study says that iPad sales are helping Amazon; Amazon has 76% of eBook market
      (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/10/cowen-and-company-ebook-kindle-ibooks-market-survey.html)
    • Kindle device sales surpass Q4 2009 sales
    • Kindle eBook sales surpass print (hardback and paperback) for top 10 bestsellers
    • Amazon begings talks about ebook lending
    • NOOKcolor released

    November

    • Forrester Research releases some numbers on eBook reading: 35% read on a computer, 32% on Kindle, 15% iPhone, 12% Sony, 10% netbooks, 9% Nook, 9% iPad.
      (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/and-the-most-popular-way-to-read-an-e-book-is/)
    • Plastic Logic gets Russian funding to create a new business-focused eBook device.
    • New York Times will finally start ranking eBooks.
    • Copia goes live. eBook world yawns…
    • Havnon make color e ink devices, looks like Tammy Faye Baker in pastel

    December

    • Google launches eBookstore finally — it’s in beta, even if they say it isn’t
    • Amazon announces Kindle for the Web will allow consumers to sell and view complete Kindle eBooks on the web. Fighting back against Google eBooks.
    • Amazon gives authors access to Nielsen BookScan data. Very cool.
    • Kindle sales in 2.5 months of Q4 exceed all of 2009. Looks like they will sell 8 million Kindles this year.

    Predictions for 2011

    • iPad 2.0
    • Amazon Android? Tablet
    • Nook Color will Become a Tablet device
      (http://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/)
    • People will still have christmas lights up in january
    • Sony will come out with another reading device no one uses
    • mirasol & pixel qi, or maybe havnon bigger in US
    • Kindle will lose a little bit of market share, but not significantly
    • Social media (Amazon Kindle app on iPad)

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    We catch up on eBook news of the past few weeks
    Listener Feedback
    Item of curiosity

    • .mobi files have increased in size since the release of KindleGen 1.1. Where are all the extra bytes coming from?

    News

    Joshua’s upcoming conference workshops:

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    -EBN

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    News

    • Project Gutenberg and copyright issues

    Listener Feedback
    Children’s Books

    • Apps (Dr. Seuss, Disney, Animal Kingdom)
    • eBook (Winnie-the-Pooh, Shnoogle)
    • inherent disappointment
    • PDFs just aren’t a good solution for most eBook reading devices
    • Forget two-page spreads
    • Crop images, fit them into the text/story flow
    • don’t rely on text inside the images
    • Re-imagine the contents
    • comiXology is cool
    • NookKids looks like it’s part of the to-be-relased Nook SDK: related google search

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    News

    • Nook Color!

    Listener Feedback
    eBook Software

    Next week: TBA

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    News

    Images in eBooks

    • Should images be used?
    • Color or grayscale?
    • Placement and text flow
    • Dimensions and file size
    • File types
    • eReaders’ abilities to render, pan, and zoon
    • Don’t forget the cover!

    Next week: creation and management tools.

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    Indexes
    Special guest: Jan Wright: wrightinformation.com, twitter.com/WIndexing
    Some sound issues as we fgure out recording Skype calls.

    Indexes (not indicies) and how they can be used in eBooks.

    Next week, Cover Images.

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    DRM: Digital Rights Management
    Special guest: original Ninja, Derek Kurth

    Doctorow’s First Law: “Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you, and won’t give you a key, they’re not doing it for your benefit.”

    Kindle DRM:

    • encryption key based
    • same as the old mobipocket

    ePub DRM:

    • Adobe
    • B&N (Adobe modified)
    • Apple’s Fairplay

    PDF DRM:

    • ADEPT
    • Password

    LIT:

    • Everyone’s favorite DRM format

    Does DRM work?

    • What’s it supposed to do?
    • What does Steve Jobs think?
      http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
      In 2007 90% of music sales is cd based which is non-drm system
    • Most pirates are actually customers
      http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/511995
    • Torrent Freak study of pirated eBooks after the iPad launch:
      http://torrentfreak.com/ebook-piracy-surges-after-ipad-launch-100409/
      Of the 10 best selling eBooks on Amazon, not a single one was available on a public BitTorrent feed. Of the 10 best selling paperback books in the business category, 6 were available on a BitTorrent feed. Based on these books, unauthorized eBook downloads on BitTorrent grew by 78% on average, but the total number of downloads was 435 per day for the most-downloaded title and 82 for the least.
    • Pirates gonna pirate, haters gonna hate
      Harry Potter books
      DRM hurts the experience for legal customers; once it’s cracked, it has no effect on illegal users.
    • Piracy may not be as rampant as the music and movie industries would have us believe
      GAO report “Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods”, GAO-10-43 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10423.pdf
      according to the GAO, the data used to quantify piracy isn’t reliable
      There is no single methodology to collect and analyze data that can be applied across industries to estimate the effects of counterfeiting and piracy on the U.S. economy or industry sectors.
      industry studies assume a 1:1 loss, which simply isn’t the case
      Link to an article with more info: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20002348-261.html
    • O’Reilly removed DRM, saw 104% increase in eBook sales (caveat: eBook sales were alsoincreasing for other reasons)
    • Consumers hate it
      http://www.teleread.com/drm/if-it-were-my-money-there%E2%80%99s-no-way-i%E2%80%99d-put-up-with-this-crp-says-young-reader/
    • Do publishers need DRM?
      Maybe for educational, refernce books

    Is it legal to break DRM? (caveat: we are NOT lawyers)

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