Articles, Videos & Presentations.

Director of Circular Software Ken Jones has written articles and spoken at many publishing industry events including CreativePro Week, London Book Fair, Future Books, PepCon, Digital Book World and Digital Publishing Summit. He also wrote this in the third person. The following list features some of those articles and videos of presentations.

Are you ready to use InDesign on the web?

"The InDesign user will be able to choose which sections of a document they open up to allow text editing. Done well this would be a major new feature for InDesign."

BookMachine - January 2021

Listen up! Audiobooks finally get a standard

"The W3C audiobooks specification that fully describes a suitable standard for audiobook structure, metadata and packaging … will become an official mainstream format later this year."

BookMachine - June 2020

Beyond iBooks Author

"We have been let down by before by the failure of Adobe’s apps and formats (Flash, Flex, Adobe DPS, Muse) and now the .iBooks joins this long list. Longevity is one of the main benefits of using standards."

Medium - June 2020

Circular Software at CreativePro Week

A demonstration of 26 of the unique features to create and securely share beautiful, interactive and accessible ebooks and audiobooks.

YouTube - June 2020

More accessibility and interactivity from InDesign with CircularFLO.

"Over thirty new improvements for exporting reflowable ebooks, fixed layout ebooks and audiobooks have been added to CircularFLO 2020 in the most significant upgrade in the ebook creation application’s nine year history."

Medium - March 2020

MasterPlan presentation - Digital Book World 2019

VIDEO - The is the presentation given as part of Digital Book World 2019. An explanation and walk through of the problems facing publishers in getting digital publications to their readers and offering a real solution to those problems.

Digital Book World, Nashville - September 2019

SVG is Simply Very Good

"By using maths to describe the position of points and the shape of the lines between them, we can accurately describe any 2D shape."

BookMachine - May 2020

Just your type – new font formats come to InDesign

"The most interesting new feature of InDesign 2020 – the latest major update of our industry standard page layout software from Adobe – was the addition of support for variable fonts."

BookMachine - February 2020

Frustrated with EPUB? You need OMGPUB!

"It is a cruel irony that Amazon dominates the ebook industry as their support for interaction [in visual ebooks] is severely lacking and stifles any innovation."

BookMachine - September 2019

Pushing the boundaries of beautiful, interactive Fixed Layout EPUB

VIDEO - Live demonstration of over thirty ideas for interactive fixed layout EPUB.

Digital Publishing Summit, Paris - June 2019

EPUB 3.2 - What is it and should we care?

"Existing Reflowable EPUB 3 and Fixed Layout (technically EPUB 3.0.1) publications are already compliant with EPUB 3.2. But there are some changes to what EPUB 3.2 can now have."

BookMachine - May 2019

The second coming of ebooks

"Digital publishing as a whole and ebooks in general seem to be gaining momentum for a revival, a renaissance. A second coming."

BookMachine - March 2019

My year as an international publishing software geek.

"I started June with a ten day trip to New Orleans. I had been invited to join the ranks of their impressive list of speakers and lead a presentation and demonstration at PepCon."

LinkedIn - December 2018

From here to Affinity?

"Watch out InDesign, there is a new kid in town…"

BookMachine - August 2018

What does your proof actually prove?

"As with many aspects of book publishing, ‘proofs’ is a term that’s not always easy to understand. There are many different types of proofs. Some of them have more than one name. Some have slang names. Some names don’t actually refer to what they are. Some have been superseded."

BookMachine - June 2018