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So, yesterday Apple launched the new iBooks Author application for the Mac. It looks great, produces fantastic dynamic content, and more than one person assumed that it was outputting ePub3 files. However, that was not the case, as is extensively documented by Daniel Glazman (co-chairman of the WC3 CSS working group) on his blog:
A wysiwyg EPUB3 editor will not be able to edit correctly an IBA document because of the different mimetype and the proprietary CSS extensions. iBooks Author is not able to reopen a iBook it exported in their pseudo-EPUB3 format because there is no Import mechanism! That means that on one hand EPUB3 readers cannot reuse a document created by iBooks Author because of its HTML/CSS/Namespaces extensions, and on the other iBooks Author cannot create an iBook from an existing EPUB3 document because it cannot import it.
In actuality, it even goes a little further than this.
nikf:
Consider me signed up.
…and what’s more, there’s courses on Cryptography, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. I’ve just signed up the to NLP and Machine Learning, as they’re astonishingly useful in a project I’m working on right now. Not sure if I’ll be doing the coursework or just the read-along version, but dammit I want that stuff in my head right now.
The Joy of Books
Many sleepless nights were spent moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto to create this video.
(via Sarah Moran)
I’m in absolute awe right now.
A 3-Year-Old's Subtraction
“Bottom-line: the EU thinks the “agency model” constitutes illegal price-fixing.”
John Gruber of Daring Fireball, commenting on this story from CNNMoney.
I’d say the possible reason for targeting Apple in this case is that Apple is also a platform vendor upon which competing eBook retailers wish to build platforms, and indeed have done so, before Apple. Apple’s accused collusion with publishers therefore additionally gives Apple a significant lever against competitors in the eReader app space. Just look at what they’ve done to Kindle, B&N, and Kobo.
Remember: if it weren’t for the Agency Model, all those would have been able to run decently enough via Apple IAP, albeit quite likely with higher prices. Apple eventually decided to allow us to charge more in our app— in the full knowledge that the deals they’d helped shepherd into the publishing industry would prevent us from actually doing so.
Me & my 3-year-old daughter
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[T]he reward for all that hard work was simply turning the Eye of Sauron on them. Now that Netflix is the incumbent, Hollywood is out to grab the money as they beat the shit of them to assert their command.
The content business is a bitch.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltmtpcWCGt1qz4gevo1_500.png)
[T]he reward for all that hard work was simply turning the Eye of Sauron on them. Now that Netflix is the incumbent, Hollywood is out to grab the money as they beat the shit of them to assert their command.
The content business is a bitch.
“It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.”Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance | OccupyWriters.com
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