100 Things about digital publishing in education
Welcome to 100 things about digital publishing in education. Join me as I discover how learners, staff and institutions make and use digital books for traditional and emerging practices. Lets explore...
View Article01 Why bother with ebooks?
Mobile everything has been much hyped over the past few years with figures of device ownership and network activity usage both up, up and away. Within the mobile space, one topic t intrigues me more...
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02 ebook testing kit
I have just finished up a consultancy project building an ebook that i’ll talk about soon. The photo above shows the kit that I used to test the ebook at various stages. I produced two files in the...
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03 Under the cover of the MRC ebook
Photo Credit: Nigel Goldsmith Last week the Medical Research Council released it’s new annual report in various digital formats. Tribehut (that’s me yeeeah) planned, designed and built the ebook...
View Article04 Publishing jargon
On my ebook publishing journey I have begun to stumble across processes, stages and phrases that use traditional print terminology. I will note them here for my own sanity and maybe that of others as I...
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Terese Bird
As with all good people you discover online, I came across Terese Bird by way of her high quality work around all things digital media. Terese kindly offered to be interviewed about her typical day...
View ArticleHayley Atkinson
Zak and Hayley Atkinson talk about self-publishing students and the challenges of making your own books. 22mins Show notes and links http://ebooksinlearning.wordpress.com/ The blog that Hayley uses to...
View ArticleDavid Hopkins
David Hopkins @hopkinsdavid is a learning technologist, biker, and popular blogger. When you want to know about something about e-learning, check David’s blog first – don’t waste your time. We talk...
View ArticleUses for ebooks
Despite having been around for years, ebooks are still very underutalised in education. There are two types of ebook to consider. Firstly, those books made available from the publishers and other...
View ArticleARLIS Conference: Self-publishing in education
Yesterday I was invited to speak at the Arts and Library Society annual conference. I spoke for 40mins about how staff and students have been self-publishing and the need for libraries to add...
View ArticleChoosing the right ebook file formats
There are many types of paper and paper-size to choose from when printing a paper book. The same myriad of choices applies to digital books except instead of texture and paper-weight, we’re concerned...
View ArticleHello World: travels in virtuality – the ebook
At the weekend I wrapped up a project turning ‘Hello World: travels in virtuality ‘ by Sue Thomas into both Kindle and epub files. The book was originally released in dead-tree’s format back in 2004...
View ArticleGDS Service Manual – the ebook
Back in July Jukesie asked if I could knock out the GDS Service Manual for his commute and as a handy guide to refer back to. I completely forgot I did this ebook and meant to stick it online somewhere...
View ArticleMaking an ebook at UKSG 37th Conference
Earlier this week I spoke several times at UKSG about how to make an ebook WITHOUT being a coder or an indesign expert. You can view the slides and notes on my Google drive. Related posts to help you...
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