Accessibility: Requirement or Opportunity?
“The significant benefits of being able to offer accessible research documents to all cannot be underestimated. Not only does it widen our dissemination reach and…
Ebook and digital production
Accessible publishing in action
When inclusion is a consideration from the start, accessibility can become an organic part of a workflow. It can mean increased efficiency and a superior…
Automate your way to more meaningful work
Want more time for creativity, innovation, and strategic thinking—all while improving the bottom line? Let robots do the drudge. It’s hard to overstate the turmoil…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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:…
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…