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Unity and Baker Framework – Tutorial 1 of 2 This post is designed to help anyone using the Baker Framework (iOS eBook development) add 2D or 3D interactivity through Unity (popular game engine). By the end of this tutorial you will be able to add a simple 3D scene from Unity as a page into your Baker book, share information between the two tools and have a method of switching between the two as needed. Some long run potential uses for this:
From Book Oven to PressBooks, Hugh McGuire Shares His Startup Story Hugh McGuire is a well known Montreal entrepreneur. In fact, he’s known all over the world. Hugh is the founder of LibriVox, the largest catalog of audio books from the public domain. How to publish your content to Google Currents In today’s technology themed post I’m going to explain how to publish content to Google Currents. First though – what is Google Currents? Google Currents is a new product from Google. It’s an application for smartphones and tables running either Android or iOS which allows you to consume content offline in an elegant way – much like Flipboard already does for iOS devices. plans & pricing We take pride in having the most transparent pricing possible with no hidden costs. We charge a one off set up fee for a turnkey solution of the different operating systems and then we charge a monthly fee, that covers all content distribution, hosting costs and all system upgrades. Once a publisher has paid his set up fee and monthly fees, there are no surprises. Pricing is not based on how much the publisher sells (downloads or revenue) but on tiered groups of active users (10,000, 20,000, 50,000) using the apps. This allows the publisher to grow the business without having to share revenue but rather a simple price for the service being offered.
How to package an HPub · bakerframework/baker Wiki Preparing the Publication First of all, a HPub publication is like a HTML5 microsite. You should be able to see it in a standard browser and test it in Mobile Safari (it will miss the pagination and Baker features of course, but it should work). This is important because it means that if your application shows and works correctly in Mobile Safari, then it's almost sure it will work in Baker. To prepare a publication just write it like a microsite, having a HTML file for each page inside Baker and have them ordered sequentially.
Infographic: The Affordable Future of College Textbooks - Nicholas Jackson - Technology The average college student spends about $900 every year just on textbooks. That, in addition to rising tuition costs, boarding costs and activity fees, is making college more expensive than it's ever been. Publishing pioneers and textbook innovators are pushing open textbooks, or works that students can read digitally, print out on their own or buy in a more traditional format. With reduced distribution costs, open source textbooks should save students some money while also allowing them to digest new information in their chosen format. OnlineSchools.org put together an infographic that covers the movement to get more open textbooks on the market. Infographics are always a bit of a hodgepodge of statistics culled from a variety of sources.
Google Currents: Publishing Platform to Marry Magazines and Mobile Sample image of Currents Producer. Courtesy Google Mobile blog Thursday, Google finally launched its long-rumored magazine-style publishing platform for tablets and smartphones. It’s called Currents, and it’s available now in the U.S. for both Android and iOS. You create We deliver When PixelMags distributed the first ever magazine on the iPhone back in 2009, no one could have possibly imagined the impact that this would have within the publishing industry. The growth and changes we’ve seen since then have been phenomenal. The truth is, we’re not simply a digital replica app company and never have been.
in5 v1.2 now supports Liquid Layout and Baker Framework in5 v1.2 now supports Liquid Layout and Baker Framework We’ve got some big new additions to in5 (InDesign to HTML5). These updates, like all version 1.x updates, are available at no charge to existing in5 users. Hyphenation in NOOK Color What I really wanted to be writing about today was my new miniguide about, uh, well I'll tell you soon, which is all ready to go, but unfortunately not yet available on my shopping cart site. As soon as it is, I'll announce it here. (It's pretty cool :) Meanwhile, I've been working a lot with the NOOK Color and noticed that it was mangling my headlines, putting hyphens in even though I don't want them, and even cutting off the end of words sometimes. This despite using the standard CSS hyphen controls that I explained in this article here in February. The standard CSS for controlling hyphens is not currently supported by NOOK Color, but thankfully, there was a guy from B&N on Mobile Read who offered a solution.
The top 10 ways to create digital magazines If you're used to visiting netmagazine.com every day, then you'll notice something a little different about the site you're looking at right now. That's because .net magazine, the print publication that's been the web industry's bible since 1994, is now publishing all its online content via Creativebloq.com. UPDATE: We've migrated around 250 of 1,800 old articles. More are coming online every day.
Tutorial for Standalone App · bakerframework/baker Wiki Using Baker is simple and even if there are some technicalities involved, it's doable with just basic technical knowledge. This tutorial assumes that you choose the Standalone publication support in Baker. If you're not sure, read here. Free education: Learning new lessons TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard. Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model that sells seminars, lectures, exams and a “salad days” social life in a single bundle. Now online provision is transforming higher education, giving the best universities a chance to widen their catch, opening new opportunities for the agile, and threatening doom for the laggard and mediocre. The roots are decades old.
Out My Window: An Interactive Documentary Out My Window – it’s a new interactive documentary, a film unlike any you have seen before. Katerina Cizek, the director, put it together over the course of years, and the award-winning film uses its novel approach to explore life, as it goes on, within highrises – the most commonly built structures during the past century. Created with 360º video and high end web technology, Out My Window brings you to 13 different locations across the globe, moving from Chicago to São Paulo, to Bangalore and Johannesburg.