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Digital Disruption: When, Whether, Whence?
Is the worst of the digital transition over? Some expect mostly smooth sailing for publishers in the next few years, while others say more change is coming that few are prepared to weather. Rather than...
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Some EPUB Identifier Best Practices
I recently received an email from a FlightDeck user who was wondering about some of the warning messages he was receiving in his EPUB file. The questions he asked touched on some important issues that...
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Ebook Developers’ Common Problems
Joshua Tallent “recently received an email from a FlightDeck user who was wondering about some of the warning messages he was receiving in his EPUB file.” So in his latest blog post for DBW, Tallent...
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Introducing DBW Spotlight
Digital Book World is proud to announce the launch of DBW Spotlight—a new way for you to dive deeper into the issues that are important to your business. Starting in September, our editors will devote...
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How to Add a page-list to an EPUB
Navigation is an important part of every ebook file, and one navigation option that many publishers often forget when creating their ebooks is page numbers. “Wait… There are page numbers in ebooks?”...
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Best Practices for Ebook Front Matter: Cover Image
The front matter of a book communicates a lot of helpful and important information to readers. But publishers and authors often find themselves wondering how to handle that information in their ebook...
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All About Ebook Production and Cover Images
The front matter of a book communicates a lot of helpful and important information to readers. But publishers and authors often find themselves wondering how to handle that information in their ebook...
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Why Digital Platform Solutions Are Needed in Academic Publishing
While traditional books are standalone products, marketed separately and designed to inform without context, their use in academic contexts can be very different. Students use large amounts of digital...
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Best Practices for Ebook Front Matter: Copyright Page, Part 1
The front matter of a book communicates a lot of helpful and important information to readers. But publishers and authors often find themselves wondering how to handle that information in their ebook...
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Best Practices for Ebook Front Matter: Copyright Page, Part 2
The front matter of a book communicates a lot of helpful and important information to readers. But publishers and authors often find themselves wondering how to handle that information in their ebook...
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Best Practices for Ebook Front Matter: Table of Contents, Part 1
The front matter of a book communicates a lot of helpful and important information to readers. But publishers and authors often find themselves wondering how to handle that information in their ebook...
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Exploiting the Full Potential of the EPUB3 Format
If you are a publisher of books that are not strictly narrative, are your ebooks a mirror image of your print books? Or have you taken advantage of the capabilities that the EPUB3 format provides to...
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Why Publishers Are Missing out by Not Using EPUB3
If you are a publisher of books that are not strictly narrative, are your ebooks a mirror image of your print books? Or have you taken advantage of the capabilities that the EPUB3 format provides to...
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Best Practices for Ebook Front Matter: Table of Contents, Part 2
The front matter of a book communicates a lot of helpful and important information to readers. But publishers and authors often find themselves wondering how to handle that information in their ebook...
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Best Practices for Ebook Back Matter: Footnotes and Endnotes
In previous posts we have been discussing the important parts of the front matter of an ebook. Now we will switch to discussing the back matter, starting with the topic of footnotes and endnotes. Note:...
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Diamonds of Data: Digging Beneath the Surface of Your Content
The theme this month here on Digital Book World is data and analytics. We are all hyper-aware of the data that is outside our books (metadata). Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy made that point...
View ArticleHow “Send to Kindle” Can Help Neutralize Amazon
Publishers that sell ebooks direct to consumers typically do so in EPUB format. That’s because most publishers are still wedded to the false sense of security DRM provides, and EPUB offers a popular...
View ArticleAndrew Rhomberg: How and Why We Measure a Book’s Audience
In his workshop at Digital Book World 2016 titled “Data-Smart Publishing,” Jellybooks Founder Andrew Rhomberg described the process by which his company measures reader analytics, and also explained...
View ArticleWill an Open Web Liberate Reading Data?
At last week’s BEA, it was announced that the IDPF, the standards body for ebooks and responsible for the current EPUB specification, is considering merging with the W3C, the standards body for the web...
View ArticleEPUB Vs. MOBI Vs. PDF: Which File Formats Should You Use When Self-Publishing?
So you’ve written a book and you want to get it out into the world. You’ve decided that self-publishing is the way to go, but you’re not really sure how to turn that book on your computer into...
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