I have been collecting links across the web about every aspect of ebooks and thought I may as well share it here as it grows. Feel free to comment/email with any useful resources.
Last updated 13 May 2012 and listed with my latest finds at the top
- E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?
- Why e-books will soon be obsolete (and no, it’s not just because of DRM)
- I can’t wait until we move past the awkward teenage years of ebooks. Quote from Jason Santa Maria via Twitter
- What Amazon’s ebook strategy means
- One more time: E-books do not contain ‘formatting’
- Oxford launches free online interactive book
- Can education afford the iPad? Tony Bates, 2012
- Create rich-layout publications in EPUB 3 with HTML5, CSS3, and MathML
- Seth Godin on Libraries, Literary Agents and the Future of Book Publishing as We Know It
- A Guide to Publishers in the Library Ebook Market, 2012
- How important are open ebook standards to universities? Ben Showers, JISC 2012
- Accessibility of e-Textbook Readers, Sharon Perry, JISC CETIS, 2012
- Resurgence of the scroll, Paul Rudman, BDRA 2012
- My Notes on Writing an E-book, Jonathan Snook, 2012
- Academic ebooks can succeed but publishers must play their part, The Guardian, 19th Feb 2012
- Amazon Kindle — 12 months on
- http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/12/19/6692/
- E-Books – The Bigger Problem, 2009
- Interview with a Student on eReading
- Poll – How much would you (realistically) pay for an eTextbook?
- How much should an ebook cost?
- A Brief Rant On The Future Of Interaction Design
- Why Aren’t Students Using E-Books?
- Student resistance to e-books
- E-Book, In-House
- What can you do with a digital book?
- Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto
- History of ebooks
- Everything You Need to Know About How to Digitally Self Publish
- EPUB: Straight to the point, Book 2010
- The shape of our future book
- NISO Information standards Quarterly
- Book Piracy: A Non-Issue
- How are your reading habits changing?
- Are Tablets and E-Readers Now Educational Requirements?
- Amazon kindle and textbooks, JISC Cetis 2011
- http://openairpub.com/
- We Can’t Teach Students to Love Reading, Alan Jacobs
- Ebook Subscription Models, Revisited.
- Reading in Four Dimensions [Kindle Edition]
- http://www.publification.com/
- The true price of publishing, The Guardian
- Post-artifact books and publishing, Craig Mod, (2011)
- TED Books hit Apple’s iBookstore
- Al Gore, Our Choice
- Publishing ePub Documents via RSS, Stephen Downes
- Build a digital book with EPUB
http://bookbind.sourceforge.net/ - Ebb and Flow A collaborative digital fiction project exploring the often contradictory concepts of technology and literature.
- The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-Books, JISC
- What Men (and Women) Talk About When They Talk About Publishing (Part 2)
- http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2011/07/25/reading-the-fine-print-considering-different-ebook-publishing-options-for-the-ibookstore/
- http://edmac.usask.ca/rick/ebookflyer/
- http://www.millennialprofessor.com/2011/07/e-books-and-education-rules-from-us.html
- http://comms.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2011/07/06/e-booking-the-trend/
- http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-07-19-google-book-publishers-lawsuit_n.htm
- E-books the view from Bristol http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/joyceagm2011
- http://www.dolectures.com/speakers/craig-mod/
- http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/25/in-library-ebook-lending-program-expands-to-1000-libraries/
- E-Book Tarnishes The Reader-Book Relationship : NPR Commentator Andrei Codrescu is upset that passages on his eBook reader are highlighted. This happens automatically by a crowd-sourcing program. Codrescu says it takes the privacy out of reading.
- http://huffduffer.com/tribehut/45834
- SitePoint Podcast #48: Publishing Futures with Derek Powazek Kevin Yank (@sentience) and Derek Powazek (@fraying), co-creator of JPG Magazine and Fray, discuss the pros and cons of ebooks, what Apple’s iPad means to publishers big and small, and why print may be here to stay.
- http://huffduffer.com/tribehut/45833
- Kindle-lovers are ‘bloodless nerds’ says Penelope Lively http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/jul/11/penelope-lively-kindle
- The Ticklish Problem of Pricing E-books for Libraries http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/07/12/the-ticklish-problem-of-pricing-e-books-for-libraries/
- http://lendle.me/
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Projects / Reports
- JISC Digital Monograph Technical Study
- Role of metadata in the discovery selection and acquisition of ebooks
- European report on the future of learning
- E-books and E-readers in New Zealand Libraries – an overview
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elements of an ebook
- Cover
- Metadata (ISBN, categories, publisher, author, copyright notice)
- Marketing elements (advertising etc)
- Formats and preservation
- Contents – text, multimedia, voiceover, links, interaction
- Platforms (build and delivery)