EPUB 3 update panel included Robert Kasher (Book Masters), Keith Fahlgren (Threepress Consulting Inc.), George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium), Bill Kasdorf (Apex Content Solutions) EPUB 3 was just announced this morning by the IDPF.  The final draft of standard being readied for release at BEA 2011.  http://idpf.org/epub/30 – public release of standard here, ready for comment, looking for lots [...]

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Skip Prichard, CEO and President of Ingram Content Group, provided a keynote full of energy and enthusiasm. (The video is available here.)  His theme was the adoption of technology, change, taking risks, and staying true to the purpose of the company.  Skip began with a general overview and summary of the technologies of today stating, ”we [...]

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This is probably not a surprise to many people, but the 2011 Horizon Report has listed eBooks as a technology that has one year or less to adoption. From the Horizon Report:  ”Now that they are firmly established in the consumer sector, electronic books are beginning to demonstrate capabilities that challenge the very definition of reading. [...]

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New Ebook Platforms Target the Scholarly Monograph The networked library of the future as bookseller : Futurebook eBookFling Wants To Be The Netflix Of eBook Lending – eBookNewser Digital Book World: Industry forecast – results of the DBW/Forrester 2010 publishing survey What Publishers Need To Know About Making Enhanced eBooks – eBookNewser Digital Book World [...]

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New ereader app hits the iPad: iFlow Is Your E-Book Reading Up On You? : NPR 5 E-Book Trends That Will Change the Future of Publishing Reckless Enthusiasm and the Platform Wars – Scholarly Kitchen Heading to a Digital Holiday

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Aptara and Digital Book World are sponsoring a complimentary webinar on November 2nd on the development and production of eBooks.  The description from their website, where you can register,  is: Enhanced eBooks and apps aren’t simple, natural extensions of their printed counterparts. They require a great deal of careful planning, due to differences in eReader [...]

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Tools of Change – Networked, Mobile & Landlocked – Current Ereaders – Feb 22 11:45 – 12:30 Liza Daly and Keith Fahlgren Requiem for an ebook shopper – consumer perspective on devices available Liza showed a interesting slide with the interconnectivity (or not) by popular readers, very complicated to buy a book (consumer says, the [...]

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Interesting article in the Washington Post on hybrid books – books which contain print, video, links, and other multisensory features.  The article is As books go beyond printed page to multisensory experience – what about reading? Loss of creativity/imagination is a recurring thought in the article and subsequent comments.   Vooks, as they are called, [...]

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