Hacker News with Generative AI: Digital Publishing

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover (standardebooks.org)
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.
Ebooks, Public Domain, Open Source, Volunteer Projects, Digital Publishing
1213 points by tosh 20 days ago | 247 comments
Updated W3C Recommendation: ePub 3.3 (w3.org)
The Publishing Maintenance Working Group has published an updated EPUB 3.3 Recommendation. EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents.
Publishing, Web Standards, Digital Publishing, ePUB
4 points by Kerrick 30 days ago | 0 comments
If your content is only on social media, I'm not going to see it (coryd.dev)
If you only post on social media, I won't see it. If you don't have an RSS feed, I won't follow it, I won't subscribe to it. I don't want want your app because I don't want a homescreen full of apps for publications and platforms.[1]
RSS, Social Media, Content Consumption, Web Design, Digital Publishing
5 points by divdivtable 51 days ago | 1 comments
Why "Run Your Own Mail Server" Is Not in Amazon's Kindle Store (mwl.io)
I expect folks to ask this, so here’s a pre-emptive blog post. TLDR: for the same reasons OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems is not. Amazon’s deal is unacceptable.
Email, Open Source, Digital Publishing
17 points by zdw 210 days ago | 6 comments