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    Ebook and digital production

    Are you ready to use InDesign on the web?

    A look at new and upcoming new methods for online copy editing, commenting and review and considering whether we should be changing our publishing wor…
    Ken Jones January 18, 2021
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    Helvetica Now: a new chapter for an iconic typeface

    In this article for BookMachine, Charles Nix, a Creative Type Director at Monotype, gives insights into the origin and development of Helvetica Now: a new chapter in…

    Charles Nix November 23, 2020
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    How we developed a user-centred interface for our publishing start-up

    Where Is The Bird? – a story of augmenting reality At VIKA we make extraordinary books that blur the boundaries between real and virtual formats.…

    Victoria Forrest November 2, 2020
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    Listen up! Audiobooks finally get a standard

    Audiobooks are cool. They are so cool that they don’t need no rules. Having worked with ebooks for a long while, where we have had…

    Ken Jones June 26, 2020
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    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:…

    Huw Alexander May 25, 2020
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    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…

    Abbie Headon February 14, 2020
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    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…

    Damian Gibbs February 3, 2020
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    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…

    Ken Jones November 28, 2019
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    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…

    Ken Jones September 30, 2019
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    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…

    Anna Cunnane August 28, 2019
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    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…

    Bee Kapitan August 27, 2019
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    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…

    Ken Jones May 19, 2019
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    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,…

    Ken Jones October 29, 2018
    Your proof

    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…

    Ken Jones June 16, 2018
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    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…

    Ken Jones April 30, 2018
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