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Multiformat publishing guide

Simon Worthington edited this page May 31, 2020 · 11 revisions

Formats

All formats need to be PRO (Publication Ready Outputs) meaning reaching quality level ready for publishing.

Reading

  • Mobile first web
  • CSS Typesetting
  • Screen PDF
  • Print PDF
  • ebook

Standards - de facto / de jour (standard / non-standard)

  • Source
  • Master
  • Archive
  • Multiverse
  • Markdown

Target channels

  • Amazon Kindle
  • Spark Ingram

ebook

ebook benchmarks

Looking for file copies of high quality ebooks to be able to examine to understand workings.

Benchmark books: Mikrotext, eeclectic.de, etc.:

  1. Mikrotext: My name is Bino Byansi Byakueleka - file
  2. eeclectic.de - Wiedersehen in TUNIX! Ein Handbuch zur Berliner Projektekultur - file
  3. DOAB - found this via DOAB, should do the trick Ebooks in education from Ubiquity at no cost - EPUB and AZW
  4. Open Book Publishers - Non-Communicable Disease Prevention: Best Buys, Wasted Buys and Contestable Buys technical publication to test tables, citations etc. - file EPUB AZW . nice FOSS software too :-) https://github.com/OpenBookPublishers
  5. UCL Press - Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment funny, have ISBNs reserved for ebook, but no ebook available via site 978–1–787350–38–0 - doesn't look like UCL Press do ebooks. Will ask.
  6. Verso - Marxism and the Philosophy of Science - A Critical History by Helena Sheehan (just because its such a good book and left my last copy in Madrid and with lockdown I'm not going to get that back anytime soon) - EPUB mobi

Up-to-date ebook production guide

Looking for a guide to high quality ebook and EPUB 3.0 production and building.

The thinking on ebooks is that there are three types (2020):

a. EPUB 3.0 based with some compliance to W3C; b. Off Piste using a Chrome browser on ereader to render anything that will render in Chrome, and; c. Kindle and kf8

Browser reading ebook technology

EPUB.js + Hypothesis Reader - https://github.com/futurepress/hypothesis-reader example https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bal/read/?loc=Text%2Fcover.xhtml