Wiley began experimenting with shifting from XML-first to HTML-first for a subset of their online journals. Hear about the challenges and the fun along the way.
Ebooks
Images in ebooks
- March 21, 2018
Naomi Kennedy (Penguin Random House) takes us through the often conflicting recommendations from ebook vendors and shows you how to optimize images in all of your EPUBs.
In this workshop, we’ll show how to test the accessibility of EPUB content, what are the underlying concepts, and what tools and processes can be used along the way.
Join Jiminy and Dave for an Excellent CSS Adventure, traveling through time from the dawn of the Kindle era, through today’s responsive EPUBs, to the future of web publications.
The ebook world is evolving around us. Liisa McCloy-Kelley teaches us how to focus on what really matters without allowing yourself to get too distracted by all the shiny objects out there.
Life after Adobe
- March 21, 2018
Simon Collinson and Nick Barreto (Canelo Digital Publishing) will walk the audience through their Adobe-free toolbelt, giving tips, tricks, and warning of potholes to avoid.
Handling equations in ebooks is a pain point when dealing with STEM content. Luckily, there are open-source tools that try to pragmatically solve this problem for the web.
Ellen Ullman in conversation
- March 22, 2018
A conversation with Ellen Ullman, author of the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era.
End of the conveyor belt: A bookstore’s perspective on quality control, support improvements, and user feedback
- March 22, 2018
In addition to a general overview of ebook testing and support at Kobo, this presentation provides some historical context for how processes and reading platforms have evolved at Kobo over the years.
About three years ago, Rachel Comerford began two digital journeys: interpreting, applying, and developing ebook standards; and online dating.
This presentation reviews the findings from the Benetech accessibility evaluation pilot program, which are informing a certification process that will be widely adopted by the publishing industry.
This workshop gives an overview of the JavaScript language: how it works, and core principles. We’ll also talk about what that means for the ebook reading experience, tips for implementation, and guidelines for usage.












