Results tagged “ebooks” from O'Reilly Labs

Dear Adobe Digital Editions Team

Dear Adobe Digital Editions Team

By Keith Fahlgren
May 22, 2009 | Comments: 2
Adobe has made extensive contributions to the world of EPUB software, but needs to go a few steps further with their Digital Editions product.

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Adobe Improves ePub Export from InDesign, But Still Has a Ways to Go

Adobe Improves ePub Export from InDesign, But Still Has a Ways to Go

By Ron Bilodeau
May 21, 2009 | Comments: 0
So Adobe has finally released the latest update for InDesign CS4 (6.0.2). Basically, before this update was released, the ePub export functionality was broken. Here is the latest blog post from Adobe about the update: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/2009/05/indesign_602_and_epub_export.html. With this update, I...

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EPUB Resources and Guides

EPUB Resources and Guides

By Keith Fahlgren
March 2, 2009 | Comments: 7
After being asked about EPUB resources, I wrote up a categorized list of the places I'd go to find out more about the format, how to create it, and how to consume it.

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DocBook-XSL 1.74.1 Released with Improved ePub Output

DocBook-XSL 1.74.1 Released with Improved ePub Output

By Keith Fahlgren
February 17, 2009 | Comments: 0
Generate ePub files from your DocBook XML today using the first stable release with ePub support, DocBook-XSL 1.74.1.

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Metrics from the O'Reilly Bookworm release

Metrics from the O'Reilly Bookworm release

By Liza Daly
February 12, 2009 | Comments: 0
This is the kind of web usage report that makes site managers ecstatic and software engineers cringe, and as I'm playing both roles in this case I'd describe it as a feeling of giddy terror. Bookworm has been online...

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Bookworm and O'Reilly Labs

Bookworm and O'Reilly Labs

By Liza Daly
February 10, 2009 | Comments: 1
I'm extremely pleased to announce that the Bookworm project is now part of O'Reilly Labs.

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Projects

Bookworm

The free platform for reading EPUB books online from any device.

Integrated with O'Reilly Labs 02/09/09.

First translations added 03/11/09.

Feedbooks integration & one-click addition added 07/29/09.

Beta Projects

Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS)

Participate in collaborative community feedback to help refine in-progress, open manuscripts like Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or the published Programming Scala.

Released 05/20/09.

O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI)

Want to know all we know about an  O'Reilly book? Give us an ISBN and we'll let you in on our (RDF) secrets!

Released 02/09/09.

Open Source

DocBook-XSL 1.74.3 with Improved ePub Output

Keith Fahlgren (O'Reilly Media) helped release the stable 1.74.3 release of the open source DocBook-XSL project and improved the EPUB generation stylesheets. Paul Norton (Adobe) and Liza Daly (Threepress) provided very helpful patches.

Released 02/17/09.

DocBook-XSL 1.74.0 EPUB Output

Paul Norton (Adobe) and Keith Fahlgren (O'Reilly Media) have contributed code to the 1.74.0 release of the open source DocBook-XSL project that generates EPUB documents from DocBook. An alpha-quality reference implementation in Ruby was also been provided.

EPUB is an open standard of  the The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and something O'Reilly is trying  to help gain wider adoption.

Released 06/02/08.