I’m an inveterate tinkerer, so our in-house projects are all really experiments. Our new site design and structure is another one. It is an attempt to focus in a way we’ve never done before. In building it, I was absolutely strict about our constraints. I wanted: one site design that … More

On my personal blog I’ve just written about an issue many students, lecturers, librarians and educational publishers are thinking about: if there are supposed to be cost savings in digital publishing, where are they? Companies that are not traditional publishers, and therefore have no paper-based business interests (read: jobs) to … More

A recent white paper on digital publishing from Aptara makes some excellent points about digital publishing. I’ve expanded on some of these over on my personal blog. In particular, I’m addressing the relationship between what publishers are doing with ebooks now and their long-term interests in XML workflows: By creating … More