Pariah Burke's List: ___ePublishing

With the rise of the number of children reading on tablets, especially after Christmas, many parents are wondering whether there is any harm leaving their little ones use such technology. Another worrying topic for many is whether the most disadvantaged children in our Society will be left behind because of reading technologies.

We are excited to announce that analyst firm InfoTrends, in its latest “Digital Publication Platform Market Overview” report, ranked Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) as leading the pack of enterprise digital publishing platforms. We believe this recognizes Adobe’s unique ability to deliver the best digital publishing platform to enterprises today.

Marvel adds many of its most popular digital comics to Kobo’s content library, in a deal a Kobo spokesperson says encompasses more than 250 fixed-layout illustrated ebooks.

Update brings software up to version 4.0.1 as company reiterates that Adobe did not transmit or store user ID or device ID in clear text

More broadly, Amazon’s erratic response ignores most of the realities of publishing. The publishers in question, and most publishers, continue to print books as well as issue them in ebook editions. TidBITS Publishing, with its Take Control series, is one of a relatively small number of publishers (across fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, and more) that delivers books solely in electronic form.

Yes, self-published works CAN go all the way to fame and fortune in Hollywood.

Amidst the statements of ‘newspapers are dead’ comes an article from Vanity Fair’s Michael Kinsley, who believes that the newspaper will live on forever. He says there will always be a demand for high-quality news – enough at least to keep a few national newspapers going.

For the first time since Amazon began, ordinary people are talking about the company not like it’s a magical blowjob-dispensing internet genie, but like it’s a common playground bully.

The IDPF today announced the elevation of four specifications to public draft status: EPUB 3 EDUPUB Profile, Open Annotation in EPUB, EPUB Distributable Objects, and EPUB Widget Packaging and Integration .

"Salon Magazine has never made any secret that it leans strongly against Amazon, and it’s found yet another silly reason to pile onto the bandwagon with this complaint from novelist Stephan Eirik Clark. Because Amazon’s search algorithms are “for sale,” he concludes, Amazon “buried my novel.” For a while. Until it didn’t. Clark has a..."

"Barnes and Noble is quite transparent when it comes to their financial earnings and hold nothing back from investor calls and their reporting. Normally, their end of the year reports come out every April and there is some bleak news. In 2011 the company lost 209 million, in 2012 they lost 261 million and in 2013 they increased the losses to 475 million. If we look at the quarter ending on July 27, 2013 they reported loses of 55 million and October 26, 2013 NOOK lost 45 million. If you add all of these figures together it comes to over 1 billion dollars.
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"There is something of a trend going on at the moment amongst publishers. It’s not an immediately noticeable pattern, but it’s something that I think is about to take off. I’ll give you a moment to figure it out….
Figured it out yet?"

"Adobe has also announced that it will publish the technical specification for the .folio format under a free license in the first quarter of 2014. The .folio file format has become the de facto standard for highly interactive digital publications. Because of the fast growth of the digital publishing industry, and the increase in marketplaces that want to leverage .folio, Adobe believes that the industry is better served through the licensing of the .folio specification.

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"Sigil is not dead but it's development has slowed considerably to the point it's not being developed very much at this point. The best way I can describe it is Sigil is on life support."

Today, Amazon announced a new feature called Matchbook that will allow owners of hard copies of books to purchase extremely cheap ebook versions for their Kindle collection.

"In order for digital textbooks to really surpass the paper editions they need to offer more, and by more I mean embrace the technology and have embedded video, links, question & answers, and even link (in real-time?) readers from all over the world. They need to bring what is available from different platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Evernote, DropBox, etc.) in to the text in real-time (hence the device and eTextbook needs to be connected) and encourage connection, collaboration, and social learning from not only the cohort of students they are studying the course and text with, but also anyone else studying the text, from wherever they may be in the world.

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ePub­lish­ing with InDesign: Creating Fixed-Layout eBooks will teach you:

- Understanding Fixed-Layout eBooks
- Planning a Fixed-Layout eBook
- Creating Fixed-Layout in InDesign
- Adapting the HTML
- Editing the CSS
- Adding Advanced Features
- Creating Read Aloud Narration
- Creating Fixed-Layout for Kindle
- Converting Fixed-Layout for Nook
- Creating Fixed-Layout for Sony Reader
- Creating Fixed-Layout for Kobo
- Other Fixed-Layout Creation Tools