Threepress creates software for publishers, educators and authors.
With more than a decade of experience in web development and over five years in digital publishing, we provide expert consulting services and software engineering. Past work has included award-winning XML-driven search applications, open-source reading software, social networking platforms and ebook production.
Threepress team members Liza Daly and Keith Fahlgren are frequent authors and speakers on publishing technology.
Please see our blog for frequent news and commentary, or follow @liza or @abdelazer on Twitter.
Ebook consulting
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Threepress has considerable expertise with the ePub ebook format. We produce free tutorials, software and tools to help publishers and authors embrace this new technology. Please contact us for ebook consulting, content conversion or assistance with digitization. |
Current work
Threepress is developing Ibis Reader, an HTML5 mobile web platform for discovering, buying and reading digital books.
Publishers, distributors and authors who are interested in exploring a partnership with us should email info@ibisreader.com.
Client work
We are proud of our long history of successful client relationships. We love working with publishers, book enthusiasts, and organizations with an educational mission.
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Technology
We are domain experts in many aspects of publishing technology:
- Ebook formats including ePub, Mobipocket and PDF
- XML schemas from DocBook and TEI to DITA
- All web technologies including Java, Python, Perl, XHTML/CSS and JavaScript
- Unicode and internationalization isssues
- XQuery, XSLT and search or content repositories such as MarkLogic
Technologists are encouraged to review Threepress source code at the public repositories for Threepress and epub-tools.
Threepress Consulting is a member of the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) and an active participant in the ePub Working Group.
“I hired Liza and Threepress Consulting Inc. to provide advice on a technical problem which two other organisations had been unable to solve. Liza's immediate diagnosis of the problem was spot on, and she was able to provide a perfect resolution within a very short time frame, with very good communication along the way. I'd recommend Liza wholeheartedly.”
Recent presentations
We provide custom professional development seminars and are frequent conference presenters.
- ePub: the open digital book
Presentation to the American Association of University Presses - Survey of current e-readers
Presentation at O'Reilly Tools of Change 2009 - What publishers need to know about digitization
A commitment to open source.
epub-tools is a project aimed at software developers who need reusable toolkits to produce ePub files from various formats. This project includes Python libraries that convert from the DocBook and TEI XML formats and epubjs, a lightweight pure Javascript ePub reader.
Bookworm is the most
advanced open-source ePub reader and is now a part of O'Reilly Labs,
It serves tens of thousands of books, integrates with many ebook devices and software, provides free
tools for publishers, and is in active, public development.