Blue Glass Publishing: Publishing Services

Blue Glass Publishing will convert your book into a valid hand-coded OEBPS 1.2 Publication of the highest quality, and at reasonable cost. We carefully check for well-formedness and validate all the XML documents and package file using various tools as applicable, such as Brown University’s OEBPS Validator and W3C’s XHTML Validator.

In addition, in document markup we religiously follow total separation of structure/semantics from presentation, and have developed a special class attribute vocabulary inspired by TEI and DocBook for true logical structure and semantic markup within Basic OEBPS (we will also markup in Extended OEBPS.) This assures your OEBPS Publication will be easily (if not readily) transformed into other professional ebook markup vocabularies which will become commonplace in the publishing work flow of the future.

(It is important to note that machine-generated OEBPS Publications, usually converted en masse from page-based and word processing formats, are typically very difficult and time-consuming to transform into professional XML ebook markup vocabularies because presentation markup is intermixed with structural and semantic markup, and items important for presentation and accessibility purposes are not semantically marked up in a clear and unambiguous way, if at all.)

Once we have built your OEBPS Publication, we can convert it into Microsoft Reader LIT format and other OEBPS-based ebook formats as they become available. We specialize in producing hand-tuned, high-quality Microsoft LIT files (for both the Desktop and the PPC Readers) which will wow readers and reviewers alike.

If you are interested in Blue Glass Publishing’s conversion service, contact us for a free estimate—we will not only do a better job than other conversion services, and do it with personalized attention, but we will do it for less! Of course, include information on the content source format, size, layout complexity, number of tables, figures and illustrations, number of “footnotes” and references, whether a glossary or index must be built, estimated number of hypertext links desired, project time schedule, etc., etc.