Enhanced Editions

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Tools of Change: Enhancing the Ebook 28/02/10

Below is a video of Peter Collingridge’s Keynote speech from this year’s Tools of Change conference; beneath that is the full transcript, including slides.

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Reading books on the iPhone 08/10/09

If you’ve been enjoying Bunny Munro, and the experience of reading on your iPhone, we thought you might like a quick guide to reading more books on there…

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Bunny Munro Approved 05/09/09

We’ve just found out that Bunny Munro has finally been approved by the App Review team. More to follow, but right now, you’ll find the Bunny Munro app in all its delights, on the App Store.

This App is available worldwide, so if the above link doesn’t work for you (it should), just search for “Bunny Munro”.

Feature: Synched Audio and Text 31/08/09

The iPhone is many things beside a phone of course, and what must be the most-used feature is audio – usually music. And audio impinges heavily on the reading experience as well, whether it’s listening to an album while you’re reading, or making the full transition to an audiobook read in a lively and entertaining style. (The audiobook has been around for many years now, from those huge tape packs you used to buy for long car journeys, through CDs to a new lease of life as mp3s from retailers like Audible and iTunes. The fact that audiobooks frequently outsell the hardback edition of many books is a direct but little-quoted challenge to the persistent idea that the physical, paper book is the only “real” way to read.) (more…)

Feature: Tilt Scrolling! 30/08/09

One of the most contentious subjects in ebook design is page flow. We’ve been working with text online for a long time, and even before you get into ebooks, there’s a whole range of options. (more…)

Feature: In App News 29/08/09

One of the beauties of the iPhone is the fact that it’s (almost) always connected – there’s a world of information always at your fingertips, and we felt that this connectedness should be built into the books themselves to enrich the experience.

The urge to know more about a book and its authors is a common one among readers, but the reading experience is often divorced from the book’s own life out in the world – reviews, author appearances and events. (more…)

Feature: Type options and settings 28/08/09

There’s a lot of hot air talked about sans- and serif fonts, and what’s best for reading. The common view is that serif fonts are best – something about the serif marks (the little lines at the end of the letterforms) making it easier for the eye to flow along the line. (more…)

Feature: Full Text Search 28/08/09

The promise of full-text search is one of the great hopes of ebooks, as well as digitisation programmes like Project Gutenberg and Google Book Search: the ability to comb whole books and libraries to find the information you need. (more…)