The Opposite of a Minimum Viable Product

The product that defined itself organically 

Carl Zimmer on writing: “Don’t make a ship in a bottle”

Talking about complex ideas is tough. But for…

The Kindle wink

If you own one of Amazon’s e-readers, there’s a good chance you’ve accessed the “Manage Your Kindle” page at some point.

Do you notice anything strange about that URL? Much of it is just what you’d expect: H-T-T-P colon slash slash server slash something cryptic slash…

Bookish is a failing startup that could fundamentally change digital publishing

Full disclosure: I was a software developer for Bookish from March 2011 to August 2012.

I don’t know what is going to come of that not-that-hip and not-so-new…

Part 2: A recipe for a successful online magazine

Sitting on the couch with your favorite magazine in…

Eight Layers

a strategic checklist for the modern content business

Starting up in publishing

Here comes the hard part

Blogging vs. Building

“The more you blog, the less you are building”

Pandoc 製書簡釋

用 Markdown 書寫、拿 Pandoc 製造 ePub

# 如何使用Pandoc製作電子書

目前在 Mac 上，大多數的 Markdown 編輯軟體都已經內建轉製 ePub 電子書的功能，但都還不太合適製作正式的電子書，有幾個原因：

- 多半還只支援 ePub 2。
- 無法建立書籍的詮釋資料（metadata），得拆開檔案手動編輯 xhtml。
- 無法正常嵌入圖片到 ePub 檔案中。
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How to Make Medium the World’s Greatest “Collaborative Idea-Generation and Distribution” Platform