Why publishing people make great coders
“Programming is like writing a book… except when you miss a single comma on page 126, the whole thing makes no sense” – Programmer humour…
Coding and other skills
Get ready for the Day of Code 2019: interview with John Pettigrew
On Friday 22 November 2019, before this year’s Futurebook conference, 40 delegates from across the publishing industry will attend the very first Day of Code…
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…
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…
How to begin coding for free (or nearly free) in a few minutes each day
This is a guest post by Anna Cunnane. Anna is Systems and Data Manager at Abrams & Chronicle Books. Anna was winner of the Trailblazer…
What is blockchain and how can publishers benefit from it?
Anna Cunnane is Systems and Data Manager for Abrams & Chronicle Books where she specialises in metadata. She was a London Book Fair Trailblazer Award…
“The future of publishing is in your hands” – coding for all [EVENT]
Abbie Headon runs Abbie Headon Publishing Services, and offers a range of skills including writing, editing and commissioning, alongside social media, website development and publishing management. She…
Content is still king: The first State of Media and Publishing in Digital meetup
Francesca Zunino Harper is a linguist, translator, and publishing professional. She worked in the British and international academia researching on comparative literatures, translation, and women’s and environmental…
Interview with Sara O’Connor [Full Stack Developer]
Sara O’Connor worked in children’s publishing for 13 years and is now a full-time web developer. Frustrated with the cost and creative limitations of outsourcing good digital…
Interview with Janneke Niessen [angel investor, board member, mentor for startups]
Janneke Niessen is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and mentor for startups. She has started and sold 2 international tech companies and is…
Do-it-yourself scanning: how we got into OCR and you can too
Nick Barreto works where books and technology intersect. He’s managed and built apps, is as an expert on ebook formats, metadata and workflows. He is…
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…
Top tips for optimizing book discoverability
We’re fortunate to have so many book discovery tools and techniques available to us, but leveraging them effectively can be challenging. In this post I’ll…
Preserving our digital future
John Chelsom started the XML Summer School in 2000, and continues as a board member and lecturer at this annual event. Since 2010 he has…
A day in the life of a programmer
Emma Barnes taught herself to code after founding her own independent publisher, Snowbooks. She went on to build Bibliocloud, the next-generation publishing system. Now she’s…