Making Epubs Easy with The People's E-book
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The People’s E-Book A free, beautifully-simple tool to make e-books better.
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View the video from this presentation here: http://vimeo.com/96562327 Oliver Wise from The People’s E-book will walk the audience step by step through the creation of an .epub using The People’s E-book. He will explain the advantages of creating something that limits your options and explain the founding principle of keeping things as simple as possible. He will also showcase the open source nodejs module ‘pe-epub’ that was developed for The People’s E-book, and expand on the possibilities for its use in a wide variety of settings.
Transcript of Making Epubs Easy with The People's E-book
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The People’s E-BookA free, beautifully-simple tool to make e-books better.
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Online Tool: Free, visual, quick
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Graphic Novels
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Photography Books
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Public Domain
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Instructional
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Religious
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why epub?• offline / self-contained / archive
• for text: good reading experience / cross device
• people buy them
• less ephemeral?
• it’s easy, so why not?
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pe-epub
{! "title" : "The Peoples E-Book",! "cover" : "http://placekitten.com/600/800",! "pages" : [ {! "title" : "PE-EPUB",! "body" : "Making ebooks better."! } ]!}
• github.com/peoples-e/pe-epub • npm install pe-epub • built for the web
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streambooks.thepeoplesebook.net
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github.com/peoples-e/tumblr-2-pe-epub npm install tumblr-2-pe-epub
just re-map JSON