http://www.epubbooks.com/blog Information & Resources on the IDPF ePub Standard Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:16:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are looking for a web-based ePub book reader then look no further than Bookworm. Developed by Liza Daly (see also tei2epub Converter), the Bookworm ePub reader will allow you to read ePub books directly from your web browser, there is also a "mobile web-optimized" version for those of ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080718/bookworm-reader-for-epub-books/ Last month O'Reilly announced that they will be starting an experimental pilot and selling selected titles in an eBook bundle. The bundle includes a PDF, Kindle-compatible Mobipocket and of course an ePub formatted version. Today, O'Reilly announced the availability of 30 eBook titles! The cost of the bundle is a little ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080715/oreilly-are-now-selling-epub-books/ Ready ... Set ... Read! This is the headline on the Lexcycle website for their new iPhone eBook reader, Stanza. They are touting this as the 'premier electronic book reader for the iPhone and the iPod Touch' which more importantly (at least for me) has the ability to read eBooks in ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080714/do-you-want-to-read-epub-books-on-your-iphone/ Feedbooks are at it again, now they've gone and updated their RSS tool to include conversions to the ePub format! I've been playing around with this and it's a really cool app - you can even supply your own RSS feeds. The converter actually outputs to a number of different ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080705/feedbooks-rss-to-epub-converter/ New eBook Standard Now Available For Mass Market Audience was the title from yesterdays WebWire press release on the ePub book catalogue at BooksOnBoard.com. With almost 200 eBooks in the ePub format this is the first real source for mass market books to be released in the new eBook standard. It's ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080627/epub-reaches-mass-market-status/ Today over on the O'Reilly TOC, Andrew Savikas made an annoucment that from July 2008, O'Reilly will release a selection of their catalogue as a DRM-Free eBook bundle. This will include a PDF, Kindle-compatible Mobipocket and yes, an ePub format version! Not only are they giving you three for ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080618/oreilly-epub-books/ A question posted over on the ePub Community Group was asking what image formats are suitable for use in ePub. As Jon Noring replied, the OPS 2.0 Specifiaction says that a OPS (ePub) Reading System must support the GIF, PNG, JPEG and SVG image formats. These are pretty standard formats to be ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080617/image-formats-in-epub/ Earlier today Liza Daly, creator of the tei2epub converter, posted the following notice to the ePub Community over at Yahoo Groups; I'm looking for interested parties to help test an experimental platform for reading ePub-formatted books via the web. There's minimal effort involved: just upload one or more ePub documents and ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080612/web-epub-reader-testers-needed/ The Digital Editions blog is reporting that the latest release of the DocBook XSL (1.74.0) now supports output to the ePub format. It was only recently that the tei2epub converter was announced so it is great to have a converter from DocBook to the ePub format. DocBook is a very mature ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080602/new-docbook-xsl-supports-epub/ Last week, Feedbooks co-founder, Hadrien Gardeur announced on the mobileread.com forum that they will be releasing their own dedicated E-Ink eBook reader! Feedbooks.com is a service that provides public domain eBooks for download in multiple formats, including of course ePub. The device itself will be available later this year (September/October 2008) through ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080602/feedbooks-to-release-eink-reader/ At this year’s IDPF Digital Book 2008 conference, we had confirmation from Mobipocket president and CEO, Martin Görner, that Mobipocket Reader Desktop 6.2 is able to import ePub files, with the next version being able to create ePub files. At present the reader does not read ePub files natively, it ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080601/mobipocket-desktop-epub-iphone/ Two weeks ago the IDPF held their Digital Book 2008 conference at the McGraw-Hill auditorium in Manhattan, New York City. This was a one day conference held as part of the International Digital Publishing Forum’s (IDPF) spring education series, with the main focus being on the emerging global eBook market ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080529/digital-book-2008-review/ Adobe Digital Editions has been updated with enhanced DRM support and flexibility, now at version 1.5. Adobe DE is a Flash based, lightweight, internet application used for reading PDF's and the IDPF's ePub document formats. The enhancements to their DRM means that users activate their DRM protection on a named basis, ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080525/adobe-release-de15/ We are seeing more and more tools for creating ePub files being developed and the latest to join the throng is the tei2epub converter from threepress.org. This one however is aimed more for developers than the end user, unlike the BookGlutton ePub API. tei2epub is being developed by Liza Daly and ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080522/tei-converter-available-for-epub-developers/ Earlier this month BookGlutton announced their ePub API. This neat little tool gives everyone an easy way to convert HTML files to the IDPF's ePub format. At present the API is in public beta and currently only converts 'simple' HTML files, it also lacks both image and CSS support. Still, don't ... http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20080520/bookgluttons-epub-converter-api-is-unveiled/