published book authors who have used a print-on-demand service: what is the current landscape like for printing physical books via amazon kdp/lulu/ingram/etc?
i'm reading so many very conflicting reports, especially now that some of these services are now using ML crap instead of human beings in their printing processes.

book details:
- 400 pages b+w
- color front cover

#books #ebooks

eKitabu Launches Children’s Imprint: Redefining African Publishing from Kenya to the World

Kenya’s eKitabu launches Maua Books, a new children’s imprint. After award-winning Mvua Press & inclusive KSL audio/theatre innovations, they redefine African publishing.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/23/ekitabu-launches-maua-books-childrens-press/

#Africa #Audiobooks #Ebooks #EducationPublishing #Kenya

eKitabu Launches Children’s Imprint: Redefining African Publishing from Kenya to the World

Kenya’s eKitabu launches Maua Books, a new children’s imprint. After award-winning Mvua Press & inclusive KSL audio/theatre innovations, they redefine African publishing.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/23/ekitabu-launches-maua-books-childrens-press/

#Africa #Audiobooks #Ebooks #EducationPublishing #Kenya

As much as I hate DRM, I don’t see how libraries could loan ebooks & audiobooks without it!

#DRM #eBooks

published book authors who have used a print-on-demand service: what is the current landscape like for printing physical books via amazon kdp/lulu/ingram/etc?
i'm reading so many very conflicting reports, especially now that some of these services are now using ML crap instead of human beings in their printing processes.

book details:
- 400 pages b+w
- color front cover

#books #ebooks

published book authors who have used a print-on-demand service: what is the current landscape like for printing physical books via amazon kdp/lulu/ingram/etc?
i'm reading so many very conflicting reports, especially now that some of these services are now using ML crap instead of human beings in their printing processes.

book details:
- 400 pages b+w
- color front cover

#books #ebooks

Published as a Xerox PARC technical report, this 1982 dissertation explored the idea of dynamic, interactive digital books and described an experimental system in Smalltalk. At the time it was cutting edge research we now take for granted.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/SCG-82-1_Searching_for_Information_in_a_Dynamic_Book_198202.pdf

#retrocomputing #ebooks #smalltalk

Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online

by John Last

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-greg-newby-project-gutenberg-ceo-literature-public-domain-hacker/?intcmp=gift_share

You are deeply missed @gbnewby. Thanks for keeping us together!

#ebooks #publicdomain

Amazon retire vos ebooks. Pourquoi j'ai quitté Kindle après 6 ans (et ma solution)
J'ai toujours trouvé les videos d'Eliott inspirante, et sa vision data-locale (voir sa video sur l'invitation à créer son Cloud)
https://youtu.be/K8HRSgbffFs

#ebooks #Obsidian #annasarchive #droitsdauteurs #amazon #calibre #copyright
Cc: @tcrouzet@mamot.fr

Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online

by John Last

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-greg-newby-project-gutenberg-ceo-literature-public-domain-hacker/?intcmp=gift_share

You are deeply missed @gbnewby. Thanks for keeping us together!

#ebooks #publicdomain

Off the Grid is out! Go get it!

EBook. https://compassiviste.com/product/off-the-grid-living-blind-without-the-internet/

Audiobook. https://www.audible.com/pd/Off-the-Grid-Audiobook/B0FV3R8MJM?qid=1761210015&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=JVYVM67KD8F3S8CSQB16&plink=ivwUXWj0UxXlaFVF&pageLoadId=M2Qiz0J9z96uXvFE&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1

#Books #NewRelease #Books #Audible #EBook #EBooks #Audiobook #Audiobooks #BookSky

Off the Grid is out! Go get it!

EBook. https://compassiviste.com/product/off-the-grid-living-blind-without-the-internet/

Audiobook. https://www.audible.com/pd/Off-the-Grid-Audiobook/B0FV3R8MJM?qid=1761210015&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=JVYVM67KD8F3S8CSQB16&plink=ivwUXWj0UxXlaFVF&pageLoadId=M2Qiz0J9z96uXvFE&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1

#Books #NewRelease #Books #Audible #EBook #EBooks #Audiobook #Audiobooks #BookSky

Can anyone give me a clue why one of my ebooks, produced exactly the same way as the rest and with nothing unusual (no extra images etc) is five times the size of the rest?

#ebooks #techHelp

ETA: having removed both subsetted font and cover to no effect, it eventually occurred to me to check the original .docx file (converted from .odt since Calibre handles that format better), to discover that it was ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE for no reason. So that's where the problem lies, I need to work out why on earth a text doc with a single tiny image (publisher logo) is so huge...

Can anyone give me a clue why one of my ebooks, produced exactly the same way as the rest and with nothing unusual (no extra images etc) is five times the size of the rest?

#ebooks #techHelp

ETA: having removed both subsetted font and cover to no effect, it eventually occurred to me to check the original .docx file (converted from .odt since Calibre handles that format better), to discover that it was ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE for no reason. So that's where the problem lies, I need to work out why on earth a text doc with a single tiny image (publisher logo) is so huge...

"a new digital platform enabling your favorite independently owned bookstores to sell digital books, granting them a foothold in a marketplace long dominated by Amazon...100% of the profits generated by sales through those brick-and-mortar stores funnel directly back to them. Customers who don’t specify a store to support when purchasing e-books on Bookshop.org support indie shops anyway, since a third of the profit from those sales goes into a profit-sharing pool"

#reading #ebooks #books #literature #technology #bookStore #fuckAmazon

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/28/bookshoporg-enters-the-e-book-arena-giving-indie-stores-a-new-way-to-compete-with/

Goodness, I disagree with almost every bit of #RobinSloan's latest zine about #ebooks. I'll have to go into details later...
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/2025-09-26-SloanThisIsHowEBooksShouldWork
(Update: page updated, included some notes.)

Hola. Quiero enseñarles un proyecto nuevo que he estado cocinando hace un tiempo. Se trata de hiper/ediciones, una editorial independiente basada en hipertexto. Publica en formatos electrónicos y accesibles títulos y temas inéditos. Deja que te cuente más :)
https://hiperediciones.cc #hiperediciones #editorial #hipertexto #ebooks
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