My eBook eBook Typography for Flowable eBooks has been in the iBooks store for a couple of weeks, but I wasn't happy with a couple of issues, so I have uploaded a new version to the store.
It occurs to me, that eBooks can be updated (to fix stylistic problems), and rather than this being an entirely new edition (as it would be in pBook), this is simply a small update and could be handled in the same way that software is updated. On my title page, I have an aside that displays the version number.
Yipee! My eBook eBook Typography for Flowable eBooks is now available on the iBooks store.
Going through the process of getting it validated and accepted was less problematic than I supposed, but there are one or two problems to explain which may help others.
To deliver your own fonts for eBooks on the iPad or other iOS devices you will need to include the following in an extra file called com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml inside the META-INF folder:
An assignment for my students will be to create an eBook from a Shakespeare play. I thought I should go through some options of how a play could be marked-up with HTML5 and styled with CSS.
The texts of all of Shakespeare's plays are in the public domain and available from the Project Gutenberg web site as well as some other locations. The quality of these texts is variable.
I have tried various ways to use appropriate HTML, and it was not my intention to reproduce anything like the the First Folio that you see here, but rather make it clear which character is speaking which lines.
Work is progressing on eBook Typography. Chapter 11 on Special Effects now includes a section on javascript. This is really only available with ePub3 and the iPad is currently testing well.
The chapter heading page is using jquery and lettering from Paravel.
Been very busy getting 11 chapters for eBook Typography. Now decided to make this subtitled For Flowable, since there is such a great difference between flowable and fixed-layout.
The book started out as a sandbox to try out various techniques, but I have now decided to publish. Target publication date: September August 2012.
I don't know when it will be finished. It is what you might call a sandbox of experiments to see what features are supported on what platforms. Updated cover.