2009 E-formats
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Introduction to E-formats
Kindles, iPhones, Sony Readers, Google Books, e-pub, prc, DRM, no-DRM, images with OCR, page-based display vs. reflowed text . . . How do we put books in front of readers on the web? How can we get files ready for a variety of handheld devices? What will it take to get your titles into every online bookstore? Conversion experts will outline the array of e-book formats available to online readers and discuss what e-books look like, what e-books can and can’t do, and how you can prepare today’s scholarly books for tomorrow’s containers.
Moderator: Kate Davey, BiblioVault Manager, University of Chicago Press
Panelists: Liza Daly, President, Threepress Consulting Inc.; Daniel Lee, Director of Digital Content Development, Harvard University Press; Chris Palma, Strategic Partner Development Manager, Google Book Search
View Liza Daly's presentation: ePub: the open digital book (http://www.slideshare.net/lizadaly/epub-the-open-ebook-format?type=powerpoint)
Websites mentioned during the presentations:
Page-based ebooks are available from: CafeScribe (http://www.cafescribe.com/), eBooks Corp (http://www.ebooks.com/), ebrary (http://www.ebrary.com), NetLibrary (http://www.netlibrary.com/), Questia (http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp), Tizra (http://tizra.com/index.php?page=home) (see Indiana University Press's site (http://iupressonline.iupress.org/view/9jo3r/default)), ACLS Humanities (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/acls/browse.html)
Reflowable-text ebooks are available from: Amazon Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/Books-Kindle/b?ie=UTF8&node=154606011), Sony Reader (http://ebookstore.sony.com/), Mobipocket (http://www.mobipocket.com)
Google Book Search (http://books.google.com)
Google Book Search for Mobile Devices (http://books.google.com/m)
Bookworm ePub Reader (http://bookworm.oreilly.com/)
Online ePub Validator (http://www.threepress.org/document/epub-validate)
InDesign-to-ePub advice from Adobe: Producing ePub Documents from InDesign (http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/indesign-epub.html)
ePub Resources and Guides - O'Reilly Labs (http://labs.oreilly.com/2009/03/epub-resources-and-guides.html)
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