Coding for publishers: taster course
SYP member Jessica Ballance combines her work as a bookseller and manager of Daunt Books in North London with the role of associate editor at Dodo Ink, an independent…
Coding and other skills
What’s your flavour?: Selecting the right XML for your content
This is a guest post from Emily Gibson and Nic Gibson. They are both directors of Corbas Consulting Ltd and each have over 20 years’ publishing experience,…
Get with the program: Why and how to start coding
You work in publishing, right? You think you’re creative? What do you spend most of your time at work doing? If you’re in a low-level…
The code less travelled: Why I became a Rails Girl for the day and why we should all care more about coding
Recently, I seem to have encountered coding at every turn. It all started with an article by Jasmin Kirkbride here on BookMachine, back in April.…
Coder Generation: Building digital skills doesn’t have to be scary
The digital revolution might seem like a challenge to us now, but there’s a whole new generation of digital natives that will be coming into…
Five things they know about XML that you don’t
This is a guest post from Emily and Nic Gibson. They are both directors of Corbas Consulting Ltd and each have over 15 years’ publishing…
How to create a catalogue automatically using ONIX and InDesign
This is a guest post from Emma Barnes. Emma is co-founder of General Products, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General Products is the company behind FutureBook-award-winning…
A publisher’s guide to APIs
This is a guest post from Emma Barnes. Emma is co-founder of General Products, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General Products is the company behind FutureBook-award-winning…
A non-technical, beginners’ guide to ONIX for Books
This is a guest post from Emma Barnes and Rob Jones. Emma and Rob are co-founders of General Products Ltd, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General…
XML basics … and I do mean basics!
This is a very basic introduction to XML (extensible markup language). If you think that XML is exclusively for techie people or you don’t really…
6 Questions for Sophie Goldsworthy, Project Director, Oxford Scholarly Editions [INTERVIEW]
Five years ago Oxford University Press initiated a project to transform the way old texts could be accessed, read and re-purposed online. Oxford Scholarly Editions…
How to get in to the mobile app game without losing your shirt
Ustwo’s Nursery Rhymes iPad app by most measures is a success. An innovative interactive ebook, by mid-June after less than four months it had…
Apps for Digital Publishing: There are only 5 rules (Part 2)
This is Part Two of Dean Johnson’s look at how to survive in the cut-throat business of app development. Read Part One here. RULE THREE:…
Apps for Digital Publishing: There are only 5 rules (Part 1)
The app business can be as cut-throat as any other. When Brandwidth launched our first Guinness World Records app in April 2010, we were accused…