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iPads in Education Ning. Exact Editions. Wharton Digital Press | Consumer Driven Models From the Text Book Industry. Welcome to Open Library! Norton/Write Home. E2BU. The Idea Logical Company and Digital Book World have partnered to offer Enhanced Ebook University (E2BU). We believe the sudden interest of many publishers in the idea of enhanced ebooks calls for a broad and deep survey of what they are and how to think about them. That’s what this project will do. Enhanced Ebook University was created to provide background, perspective, and grounding for what we believe will be pretty widespread ebook creation efforts in the months to come.

The White Paper and the WEBcasts are not intended to teach the technology; they are our attempt to think creatively and substantively about how to apply technology to create more appealing and useful ebooks—and how to know whether or not you’re succeeding in that attempt. Register for the WEBcast series today, plus receive the White Paper, Enhanced Ebooks Today and Tomorrow, and save over 25% when you use the Promo Code DBWE2BU. Haven’t joined DBW as a member? Digital Publishing for the 21st Century.

Where U.S. Ebook Buyers Live. Have you ever wondered where the most voracious ebook readers live? Probably not. It's a fun question, though, and for the first time ever I present the data to you. I set out to determine which states ebook buyers live in, and then I wanted to know how the states stack up against one another. The numbers are surprising, especially when you look at per capita consumption. Here's how I pulled together the numbers below. So here's the first set of data, where I look at which states generate the highest (and lowest) overall sales. US States, Ranked by Aggregate Ebook PurchasesSource: Smashwords data Now here's where it gets really interesting.

Per Capita Ebook ConsumptionSource: Smashwords data A good statistician (and I don't claim to be one - I earned a D+ in statistics at UC Berkeley, and after retaking the class I earned a B-, nothing to brag about so I won't), I should poke some holes in my data. I published my raw data online over at the Smashwords Slideshare channel. Publishing Technology Blog. eBooks 101: The Digital Content Strategy for Reaching Customers Anywhere, Anytime on Any Device « Against-the-Grain.com. A Case Study Webinar with ASTD THUR • MARCH 31 • 2:00 PM EDTRegister Now Whether you sell books, software, or pharmaceuticals — if you produce or distribute large volumes of content, you’re a publisher — and are faced with how to provide your customers the content they need, when they need it, in their language, and on their preferred device. eBooks are an ideal solution.

But when it comes to publishing eBooks, there’s no prescribed format for success. Most traditional publishers aren’t good role models because they still employ print production processes that were never intended to tackle today’s electronic challenges. If you’re considering a foray into eBook or app production, join digital publishing maven Ann Rockley, the principal author of eBooks 101: The Digital Content Strategy for Reaching Customers Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device for this free one-hour webinar.

An open Q&A session will follow the presentations. The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books. Www.publetariat.com | The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated. Tech pundits recently moved up the date for the death of the book, to sometime around 2015, inspired largely by the rapid adoption of the iPad and the success of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. But in their rush to christen a new era of media consumption, have the pundits overreached? I’m calling the peak of inflated expectations now. Get ready for the next phase of the hype cycle - the trough of disillusionment.

The signs of a hype bubble are all around us. Mostly in the form of irrational exuberance. In Clearwater, Florida, the principle of the local high school recently replaced all his students’ textbooks with latest-gen Kindles - without, apparently, any awareness that formal trials of the Kindle as a textbook replacement led universities like Princeton and Arizona State University to reject it as inadequate. Then you have pundits like Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT’s Media Lab, making statements to the effect that the physical book is dead in 5 years. .epub eBooks Tutorial. Jedisaber.com Original Content:Home | Books | eBooks | Other | Links | Fan Content: Andromeda | Avatars | Anime | Dark Angel | Matrix | Pern | Stargate | Star Trek | Star Wars Introduction: What is ePub? | Part 1: Formatting Your source content | Part 2: Prepare the XML Files | Part 3: Creating The Container and Adding Your Files First, let's go check out the official specs.

Yes, it's very boring and hard to follow, but aren't they all? These will come in handy later on though. After getting the basic structure of the file setup, the official specs are handy to reference for tags that aren't used very often, or if you can't remember what exactly goes in a certain tag. IDPF Specs: Note: If you want to download an ePub file to un-zip and poke at it's guts to see how it works, I recommend either the sample ePub file mentioned in this guide, or "A Girl of the Commune" by G.A. The XML files are all the other stuff in the ePub book that tells where your content is, and what to do with it.

Great. E-book stores. O'Reilly Labs. BookGlutton - Social Reading. Books Without Borders: The Digital Infinite Library | Endless Innovation. It almost goes without saying that the recent demise of bookseller Borders, which is in the process of liquidating more than 200 of its superstores around the nation, was inevitable.

The rise of digital book culture has made many of the traditional trappings of a physical bookstore presence obsolete. Booksellers like Borders and Barnes & Noble are trying their best to innovate their way out of a difficult situation - dedicating more floorspace to digital book readers, emphasizing higher-margin multimedia items (educational toys) and hosting more live events to draw in neighborhood foot traffic - but the economics of the publishing industry have forever changed. In the same way that Blockbuster could no longer compete with Netflix and eventually filed for bankruptcy, bookstore chains like Borders can no longer compete with online retailers like Amazon. And that's where it gets interesting. But does the Digital Infinite Library approach make sense? PubIt! Registration: Home. Art and Words Editions. Uncommonly beautiful e-books and apps. Feedbooks | Free eBooks for Android & iPhone/iPad.

No Shelf Required — A moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers. From the OverDrive blog: OverDrive conducted an end user survey from June 26-July 15, 2015. Administered via library websites, the survey collected input from 16,756 respondents. Their full report examines the positive effect the shift to digital content has had on the role of libraries in their communities by helping attract new readers, serve existing patrons better and reach beyond their physical walls. There is a nice infographic on the original OverDrive blog post. Click here to see the full report and survey. MADISON, Wis. “We’re excited to add the Boopsie team and software platform to our global organization because their people, technology and user-centric approach are designed to deliver a superior experience for librarians and their patrons. I am the former Editor-in-Chief of TeleRead, the Internet’s first blog devoted to ebooks.

This is a listing of those tweets for the last week. (Denver, CO) September 15, 2015: Why are libraries screwed by ebooks now? Toshiba BookLive! Issuu - You Publish. 7 Visually Appealing Ways to Publish Documents Online. Simplebooklet.com. Get it out there! Smart tags find info on your topics in real time.

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Welcome - Bookish: For readers, publishers and booksellers. Blog - The Bookish Blog. eBooks and schools. Hi! I am a high school English teacher and I have had a Kindle for about a year--and I love it! I can annotate my texts and project passages and my notes for the class through Amazon's site and my LCD projector . A recent update allows me to group my books in collections and wherever I go, whatever room I am in, ALL of my Kindle books are with me; the Kindle fits neastly in most purses. Classics in American and world literature are usually available for free,recent titles are usually $9.99 and I can even email my own documents to it to take to meetings or readings.

Now I am not an Amazon employee-- there are a couple of downsides--I can't loan a Kindle edition and poetry doesn't always fit on the page elegantly. I'd be happy to answer any Kindle questions. Liz. eBooks and Education. eBooks are electronic forms of text. eBooks are texts that have been “published” in a digital format that displays on specialized reading devices or computers. There are now over 5,000,000 eBooks available online for free. It is now possible to have a library in every classroom or even in your pocket. Online eBook Libraries: This section contains informational links to a large number of exciting free online libraries.

This section includes Libraries for Children, Book Note Libraries, Foreign Language Libraries, Libraries for Teachers, General and Special collection libraries, and eBook search engines. eBooks Educational Applications eBRS: eBook Reading Strategies: Effective Reading Strategies applied to eBooks. FL Recommended Reading List: This is a listing of one state's reading list for elementary and secondary schools with links to over 70 books on the list that are currently available online for free.

Not ebooks, but related Books: eBooks in Education. Digital Books, E-books, Enhanced E-books, E-readers, E-book copyright, E-book Retailing. Ebooks from independent authors and publishers. Digital Book World - The Publishing Community For The 21st Century.