Alice’s Adventures in Alt-Text Land
Down the Rabbit Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:…
Ebook and digital production
BookMachine Unplugged: Talking Production – exploring the world outside Adobe
Wednesday 12 February saw the first BookMachine Unplugged event of 2020, with a packed house filling the Arboretum in Covent Garden. Just as with the…
Automation is great, but it won’t work for my books…
The most common feedback from publishers when chatting about automation is the belief that their publications are beyond what automation can do. As a book…
88 mentions of Brexit. The election manifestos are published.
We are now halfway though the six-week build-up before the 2019 UK General Election and this is the week that all the major political parties…
Frustrated with EPUB? You need OMGPUB!
For illustrated publishers, interactive EPUB has never really worked. Typical reflowable EPUBs are too plain and simplistic and although visually rich and interactive EPUBs are…
What publishers need to know about git (distributed version control system)
Git is a free to use distributed version control software for tracking changes in software development. However, the benefits of using a fully-fledged version control…
Top 5 tips to publish your interactive content with confidence
Beyond creating a cover and converting an MS Word file, ebooks are evolving – exponentially. Yet, bridging the gap between traditional print methods with digital…
EPUB 3.2 – What is it and should we care?
EPUB is the open standard that defines exactly what an ebook can be, and EPUB 3.2 – the first real update to the EPUB format…
Happy New CC 2019. Adobe updates its creative cloud software
Ken Jones runs Circular Software. He was Technical Production Manager and Publishing Software Trainer for Penguin and Dorling Kindersley for many years and now offers software,…
What does your proof actually prove?
proof /pru:f/ noun • a trial impression of a page, used for making corrections before final printing. verb • make a proof of (a printed…
CMYK is not a colour
Ken Jones runs Circular Software. He was Technical Production Manager for Penguin and Dorling Kindersley for several years and has since advised publishers such as…
The first Unplugged event of 2018: Talking Production
Abbie Headon is BookMachine’s Commissioning Editor and runs Abbie Headon Publishing Services. She champions fresh approaches to solving the industry’s challenges and can be found…
Making a groundbreaking animated and interactive children’s storybook
This article is by Ken Jones of Circular Software. Ken is running the Understanding eBooks day on 25th April 2018. I’ve been involved in making beautiful…
Smart, scalable and responsible print production [Ken Jones interview]
Ken Jones was Technical Production Manager for Penguin and Dorling Kindersley for several years and has since advised publishers such as Parragon, Nosy Crow, Walker…
Smart, scalable and responsible print production [Heather O’Connell interview]
Heather O’Connell has more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry and worked her way up from controller to senior management positions at Penguin…