Bootstrap: Beauty and The Beast
This week’s update comes from Portland, Oregon where The Holocene team met this week. In many ways, Team Holocene’s Brooklyn-Portland-Vancouver connection is a perfect allegory for the product we’re...
View ArticleDigital Reading: Judging Books by Their Covers
Is digital publishing so focused on maximizing its metadata that it neglects a crucial component of digital bookselling—the cover? While talking with Nathan Maharaj, Kobo’s Director of Merchandising...
View ArticleKobo Gives a Data Lesson
Ebook retailers remain tight-fisted with the data they collect on their customers’ e-reading habits, even though demand for it continues to grow. In the meantime, Kobo releases a practical guide to...
View ArticleFour Digital Publishing Questions for Paul Belfanti
The Digital Book World Conference + Expo, kicking off on January 13, 2015 is packed with an incredible amount of information and ideas about the digital publishing landscape at a time of remarkable...
View ArticleHow to Build Rich Navigation in EPUB3
EPUB3 is no longer all that new, but there still seems to be some reluctance among digital publishers to make the final move to a full-fledged EPUB3 workflow. In just the last two months I’ve been...
View ArticleHolding out on EPUB3 Gets Harder as UX Gets Better
To hear one leading ebook developer tell it, EPUB3 is still greeted with obstinance by a sizable handful of publishers and distributors. But holding out is getting ever harder to justify, especially as...
View ArticleOyster Ups the Ante on E-Reading Experience
If the e-reading experience were better, would more people pick up the habit? Oyster is hoping they might. Much as Kobo aims to convert print devotees with its latest e-reader, Oyster intends a new...
View Article‘The New Design Fundamentals’: Free O’Reilly e-book (warning: bad design can...
My wife of 24 years is about to get chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, very possibly inoperable. So you can imagine how I felt when I read of a cancer patient who had died because of badly designed...
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