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"Markdoc is a Markdown-based syntax and toolchain for creating custom documentation sites from Stripe."
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"Rent Free Media is a publishing distribution of Wagtail + Django aimed specifically at content creators who might otherwise use platforms such as Patreon, Substack, and Apple Podcasts. With it you can publish any sort of content to subscription users, as those services allow you to do."
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Open source, free, and one-time payment alternatives to Adobe.
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Explore the timeline of milestones in the history of web design from 1990 to the present.
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The Future Book was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. The old paperback Zork choose-your-own-adventures were just the start. The Future Book would change depending on where you were, how you were feeling.
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The Readium Project primary goal is to provide rock-solid, performant building blocks and applications for EPUB publications.
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"Compared with HTML content, information published in a PDF is harder to find, use and maintain. More importantly, unless created with sufficient care PDFs can often be bad for accessibility and rarely comply with open standards."
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A scoreboard of how quickly articles from various media companies load.
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Trade book publishing is dominated by the “Big 5”: five book publishing companies that own or partner with over 100 different publishers and imprints, and who are responsible for the li…
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Lovely clarity from @danielroseman on how the GOV.UK publishing platform works in detail
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Don’t Trust Your CMS via @nymag - definitely pay attention to this if you are a developer of publishing software
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Based on the ideas and tools discussed in this article, we’re developing a web service for automated cross-media publishing. The idea is simple enough: with our service, you will just dump some .docx (or markdown) files into your favorite cloud storage bucket (say Dropbox) and get .indd files in return, fully compatible with your already existing InDesign templates and styles, which you can then further tweak.
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"@jk_rowling @nikeshshukla YOU ARE THE BEST AND WE ALL JUST GOT TOO EXCITED"
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Fascinating look behind the scenes at the founding of UsVsTh3m and what makes it tick.
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Kristofer Layon is building a responsive ebook prototype.
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A free, open source reference book on the emerging field of data journalism.
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How NPR built an adaptable workflow for their content.
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How do you publish and update news when 24hr cycles don't exist any more.
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A collections of files, frameworks, styles and tips for designing digital publications in HTML5
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Home of the Drupal distributions Open Atrium, Managing News and TattlerApp.
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The fundamental question of the web is "WWIC?". And now you'll have to read it to find out what that means.
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What could a publisher as an API provider achieve?
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The temptation will be to take Wired's approach and try and lock the app experience down, that's not going to work. "Digital content, like water, will always find a path to freedom. You lock it down, someone else will open it up."
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"As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over?"
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Stop piping your feeds into Twitter and FB etc. You're homogenising the networks, an argument for using each one for what it's best at.
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Smart looking bi-annual magazine about street photography.
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Kevin Kelly's fantastic essay on what you'll need to know to survive in the new digital economy where everything is infinitely copyable.
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Metafilter discussion on an article at publisherweekly.com
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37signals take a look at Penguin's "Great Ideas" series.
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Overview of a robust publishing workflow for multi-author drupal sites. Includes list of required modules and patches.
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